The Center is supported by two core facilities, Cellular Pathology and the Scottish Rite for Children Biobanking Service.
Cellular Pathology
Cellular pathology services are provided for the processing of clinical neuromuscular, orthopedic diagnostic biopsies. Tissue specimens are also processed for research projects. Specimens including soft and hard tissues, blood and other body fluids are handled. The following procedures are offered as a service for all tissue samples:
- Routine Histology
- Rapid Frozen Section
- Immunocytochemistry
- Image Analysis
- Hard Tissue Techniques
- Tissue Banking
- Send outs
The diagnostic/clinical services are requested by staff physicians which consist mainly of open biopsies of muscle, fascia, nerve, bone and skin biopsies, blood and other body fluids. A frozen section biopsy service is provided for the Department of Orthopedics. Histopathology services are provided for SRC-sponsored research projects.
Scottish Rite for Children Biobanking Service
The Scottish Rite for Children Biobanking service is a centralized resource for collecting, processing, storing and distributing annotated biospecimens and their derivatives for research purposes. Collection services include procuring samples in coordination with Scottish Rite for Children surgical teams and researchers, annotation with unique identifiers, logging into a centralized database and storage. Processing serves include tissue embedding, cell culture, DNA isolation and freezing. Samples are stored in the Cellular Pathology laboratory and distributed upon request and approval of the Biobank Oversight Committee.