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| Tests | Service included in the Test | Unit | Price* |
| Cut-up and processing of tissue | Registration of demographic data and allocation of number, description, cut-up, cassette printing. | Block | £ 6.80 |
| Sectioning (unstained) | Slide labelling; 1 section per slide. | Slide | £ 1.80 |
| H&E staining | Dewax, stain, mount with coverslip. | Slide | £ 2.50 |
| Special stains | Dewax, stain, mount with coverslip. for example, Cresyl Violet, Luxol fast blue, Reticulin, | Slide | £ 5.90 |
| Immunohistochemical stain | Dewax, stain with antibody, counterstain with haematoxylin, mount with coverslip. | Slide | £ 18.00 |
| Optimisation of new antibody | Titration, retrieval methods (excluding antibody cost). | Optimisation | £ 220.00 |
High-resolution slide scanning Scanners available: | Registration, scanning, storage and export. Storage of whole slide images on our UCL server. Hamamatu S360: Brightfield standard slide size 25x75mm only
| Brightfield standard slide*** Multichannel fluorescence standard slide (all channels) | £ 2.00 £ 6.25 |
| Storage of whole slide images | Storage on UCL file server | Slide per year | no cost |
| Image analysis with QuPath | File management, slide QC, development and validation of analysis algorithm, slide analysis, data processing, analysis summary report. Publication-ready data table and analysis summary report returned to the customer. | Hour | £ 65.00 |
| Research support | Searches for antibodies, evaluation, reporting, and specialist/research consultation, discussion of results. Exception: named collaborations with FEC on grants. Technical support, such as dissection of tissues or organs; performing hands-on experiments such as spatial transcriptomic, in situ hybridisation, TUNEL stain, Frozen sectioning | Hour | £ 55.00 |
| Professional neuropathology assessment | Advice on biomarkers, classification or grading of diseases, neuropathological diagnosis of animal models. Histological assessment of human and experimental samples. Preparation, annotation of publication-ready panels, figure legends and results sections. | Hour | £ 165.00 |
| Semithin resin sections and electron microscopy | Technical support and prices please see our separate website:
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* All prices are ex-VAT.
Antibodies can be provided by the customer or purchased by us.
Only UCL-internal orders (IDT), and research collaborations on joint grants are VAT Exempt.
Industry projects: 35% in addition to the net prices listed above. Please enquire with seval.erdogan.21@ucl.ac.uk, or UCL.IQPath@ucl.ac.uk
Prices for work carried out in the accredited NHS Neuropathology laboratory
| Service element | Details of service | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||||
| Booking in fresh tissue | Registration of demographic data and allocation of number, description, cutup, Cassette printing, tissue processing | Case | £ 41.00 | |
| Booking in Block | Registration of demographic data and allocation of number, description | Case | £ 24.00 | |
| Re-embedding wax block | Melting, new casting and cassette labelling | Block | £ 6.80 | |
| Section unstained | Slide labelling; 1 Section per slide | Slide | £ 1.80 | |
| H&E staining | Dewax, stain, mount with coverslip | Slide | £ 18.00 | |
| Immunohisto- chemical stain | Dewax, stain, mount with coverslip (plus antibody*) | Slide | £ 36.00 | |
| Optimisation of new antibody | Titration, retrieval methods (plus antibody cost) | Antibody | £ 220.00 | |
| High-resolution slide scanning | Registration, scanning, storage and export Includes 1 month storage | Standard Slide | £ 2.00 | |
| High-resolution slide scanning Jumbo | Registration, scanning, storage and export Includes 1 month storage | Jumbo Slide | £ 6.50 | |
| Image analysis | Tissue annotation, Selection of regions of interest, marker identification, quantification and data output, publication-ready | Hour | £ 65.00 | |
| Research Support (Neuropathologist academic time) | Full scientific analysis and reporting of results, figures, text writing | Hour | £ 165.00 | |
| Setup and registration | Registration and setup of experiments, for small sample sizes (less than 20 slides/ blocks/ tests/ scans) | Unit | £ 35.00 | |
| Research Support | Searches for antibodies, evaluation, reporting, and specialist/research consultation, discussion of results | Hour | £ 55.00 | |
| Arrangement of MTA with UCLH | Entering data, correspondence with UCL-B and requester | per MTA | £ 55.00 | |
| Shipment and packaging FFPE, Slides, documents | Placing blocks and slides in suitable containers, mailing, including UK postage Royal mail | per package | £ 25.00 | |
| Screening of surgical case and block selection as requested | Histological assessment, screening of regions for tissue adaequacy and entering request on LIMS | per case | £ 8.00 | |
| Screening and block in complex cases, usually autopsy | Histological assessment, screening of regions for tissue adaequacy and entering request on LIMS (alternatively consultant time) | per case | £ 16.00 | |
| Retrieval of a complete case from the archive for review 2006+ | entering retrieval request on LIMS, placing retrieval flag, assorting on tray for histological assessment | case | £ 12.00 | |
| Freezing of sample into NP archive | Labelling, recording on LIMS, maintenance in Liquid nitrogen | case | £ 85.00 | |
| Frozen material biopsy sample 200mg | Retrieval, arrangements for shipment, no molecular data (meningioma, Schwannoma, Met) | case | £ 300.00 | |
| Frozen material biopsy sample 200mg | Retrieval, WITH molecular data (Gliomas) and all samples for CLINICAL use (ISO15189) | case | £ 500.00 | |
| Frozen material biopsy shipment UK+EU | Courier arrangements, dry ice, liaise with recipient, customs. UK only, correspondence | case | £ 150.00 |