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I asked the director of a local tissue archive here in Australia. Their specimens go back decades. The regulatory minimum is 10 years for many tissues (more for
by inopinatus 7y ago
I asked the director of a local tissue archive here in Australia. Their specimens go back decades. The regulatory minimum is 10 years for many tissues (more for paediatrics, and indefinitely for clinically significant rarities in molecular genetics) but in practice they hold longer than they have to.
- killjoywashere 7y agoYes, there are some really valuable studies out of Australia showing that protein signatures can be retrieved by immunohistochemistry back 80+ years.