what i do is cut away as much as the plastic as possible to try and expose
the tissue and then start reinfiltrating as if it were fresh tissue and
reembedd.
patsy

Fabien Fuente wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> We are using Spurr for a while on rather big samples (about 1cm3). After
> several successful embedded samples, we had recently experienced some
> troubles with our last samples.
>
> The resin didnot polymerized well in the center of the sample. We end up
> with gummy and soft resin in the center of the sample.
>
> As these samples are valuable, did anyone know a technique to remove this
> unpolymerized resin and re-embed the entire sample without losing the
> samples.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fabien Fuente
>
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