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**, mount with coverslip. | Slide | £ 15.00 |
Optimisation of new antibody | Titration, retrieval methods (including antibody cost). | Antibody | £ 220.00 |
High-resolution slide scanning Scanners available: | Registration, scanning, storage and export. Includes 30-day storage of whole slide images on our secure server.
| Brightfield standard slide*** Multichannel fluorescence standard slide | £ 2.00 £ 6.25 |
Storage of whole slide images | Storage on secure file server | Slide per year | no cost |
Image analysis with QuPath (Legacy projects with Definiens Tissue Studio) | 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 | £ 48.00 |
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. 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 | 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. Exception: named collaborations with UCL-FEC on existing grants. | Hour | £ 155.00 |
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.
*** Standard slide size is 26 mm × 76 mm.
**** Jumbo slide size is 52 mm × 76 mm.
***** Billed 6-monthly.
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 Sebastian Brandner s.brandner@ucl.ac.uk.