The Pathology Core Laboratory provides basic histopathology, research immunohistochemistry, tissue microarray, and laser capture microdissection services to researchers at Children’s Hospital and within the surrounding academic community.

The core offers a full range of histopathology services including tissue processing, embedding, and cutting, for both paraffin and frozen tissue. The core also performs most standard stains as well as immunohistochemistry, antibody workup, fluorescence, in situ hybridization and TUNEL. Tissue microarrays can be constructed, and sophisticated imaging instrumentation is available for virtual microscopy and image analysis. Specialized software is available to image and analyze tissue microarrays, and to manage and store array data.