Abstract

With the support of the Creativity and Leadership Project at Oberlin College, I have invented an automated histology device for research and medical applications. The device uses two soon-to-be patent pending mechanisms to fully automate the step in histology where tissue sections are mounted to glass slides, the only step in the histology work flow that has not already been automated. My device is a tool meant to provide a significant and fundamental evolutionary, not revolutionary, move forward in the practice of both life science research and medical histology. Acting both as a tool for scientific discovery and medical diagnostics, the positive impact of my device is directly relevant to facilitating and accelerating the discovery and development of scientific findings essential to the engineering of better medicines and improving the health care provided by hospitals through increasing the quality of histology-based medical diagnostic assays, reducing biopsy processing time, and allowing new and more thorough whole-sample histological approaches to be used on a routine basis. Perhaps the greatest potential of my device, however, lies in how it could link together existing automated histology systems into a single apparatus capable of doing the entire process of medical and research histology in an automated fashion from beginning to end.

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