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Some links.

• StainsFile by Bryan Llewellyn of British Columbia. This site contains a wealth of information about dyes and other reagents, with recipes, procedures and essays on the mechanisms of staining. A notable feature is a compilation of more than 60 different formulations of haematoxylin staining solutions.
• The Biological Stain Commission is a non-profit organization that has worked quietly behind the scenes for more than 80 years to ensure that the dyes used for staining tissues and microorganisms are what they claim to be and have adequate potency and purity. The BSC holds an annual meeting and publishes books and a journal, Biotechnic & Histochemistry that appears 6 times a year. A complete archive of the journal and its predecessor Stain Technology is available at the B&H publisher's web site. Membership in the BSC is open to all who are interested in stains and staining. Members also receive print and online subscriptions to the journal.
• Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. 
Published by the Histochemical Society, this has been the best journal in its field since 1953. The web site includes abstracts and full text versions (PDF files) of all the articles published since January 1959.  (For papers published in the last year, you need to be a member of the society or your institution's library must subscribe to the journal. All the earlier stuff is free!)
• The Cutting Edge. This excellent newsletter is published four times a year by the Canadian division of the National Society for Histotechnology. It carries articles of interest to histotechnologists everywhere, as well as informal items. Current and back issues are available.
• Laboratory Histology.  The superb web site of Roy Ellis. It includes many exerpts from the large Woods & Ellis techniques book, illustrated and well documented with numerous references, and supplemented with a gallery of coloured photomicrographs. This is a really useful resource for everyone who takes histotechnology seriously. Roy's site also includes sections on immunohistochemistry, lab safety, and more, with numerous links to other histo-relevant web sites.  (If your lab can't afford to buy a few books for the price of 1 ml of diluted antiserum, this web site is a must! I suspect that this scholarly internet resource is greatly under-used, even though Google brings it up on the top of the heap when you ask for "roy ellis".)
• Histotechnology technical methods  from the Pathology Department of the University of Nottingham. (Robin Hood's arch-enemy was that city's sheriff.) This is a useful compilation of about 100 mixtures and procedures, supplemented by helpful practical notes.  (Each item is accompanied by a small-print note dissociating the University of Nottingham from responsibility and claiming copyright for anything that might be quotable. Forget this politically correct stuff. The information on this web site is all derived from published sources, and references are provided.)
• IHCWORLD.  An ad-supported web site with much information on general histotechnology as well as immunohistochemistry. Many links, including suppliers of chemicals, antibodies, equipment etc.
  

Links updated June 2008