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Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

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Immunocytochemistry and In Situ Hybridization in the Biomedical Sciences

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There is a rumor that goes like this: After a particularly successful day at an international genetics conference in the late 1960s in Scotland, delegates rewarded themselves with the customary pint of beer at their favorite watering hole, the public house. In the extraordinary environment that can only be achieved when eminent or pseudo-eminent scientists meet together in a public house, there was a huge exchange of ideas and thoughts among the delegates. Beers flowed freely and more ideas were shared, even ideas that could not reasonably be allowed at the official meeting forum! Amid the thin and hazy atmosphere of the public house, thick with the acrid smoke of unproven ideas, someone confidently suggested that he was going to hybridize DNA probes onto whole cells! Silence ensued after this outrageous comment. “You are going to perform a hybridization experiment in situ? You must be mad. You’ll never do it!” said a fellow eminent scientist helpfully. The matter being put right so swiftly, the delegates then continued long into the night with other similarly outrageous ideas.

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See, C.G. (2001). Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization. In: Beesley, J.E. (eds) Immunocytochemistry and In Situ Hybridization in the Biomedical Sciences. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0139-7_7

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