Histopathology: an update on advances in research and techniques

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Digital pathology has had a significant impact on capability in tissue research. It permits the scanning of entire slides at high resolution and has an impact on a range of applications in education, research and clinical diagnostics. However, it’s not just the digital slide that counts, it’s what you do with it.

Ipath Diagnostics in Ireland has developed a powerful digital pathology platform, PathXL, to deliver a range of services to researchers. It offers the chance to manage, host, view and access slides anywhere at anytime. Ipath provides a range of services that includes digital slide scanning, a tissue microarray (TMA) toolbox and image analysis as a service for high-throughput analysis of tissues. The digital slide scanning service allows Ipath to turn scans around quickly and return glass slides to the client. The high-throughput analysis of tissue samples is set up with significant communication with the customer, leading to a highly individualised service.

Ipath also offers image analysis as a service, using generic algorithms for membrane, cytoplasmic or nuclear staining, supporting any research project from start to finish. Digital pathology is becoming more important to how tissue-based research is conducted, and Ipath has the experience, software and support necessary to fast-track research programmes.