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Hi Everyone,

I am posting this message on behalf  of Lesley Bechtold from the Jackson Labs:

"We are currently preparing slides for our Single Cell Biology Group and our Mass Spectrometry group for both 10X Visium and xenium as well as mass spec imaging (MSI).  The samples are embedded in CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose), cryosectioned onto RNAse-free 10X slides (that have a serial number etched on them) for spatial'omics as well as Intellislides for MSI (metabolomics, proteomics and lipidomics).  The 10X slides have no identifying features on them except for the etched serial number.  We cannot add a label or any other identification to them.  The Intellislides for MSI have a barcode and we can't add anything to them either.  Keeping slides grouped together and delivered to the downstream services is painstaking. We have to manually copy the serial numbers and barcodes into our request system (we use iLabs).  We create a slide key and attach it to the iLabs request, which is shared amongst the groups.  We also create labels on the mailers, slide pouches, etc. but mistakes are still made.

 I'm wondering if any other histology groups are doing similar work and if they have found a system that works for them?"

Please reply to this thread if you have any advice.

Thanks!

Jane

Thank you.

Lesley