There is much discussion on the best way to fix biological specimens, often advocating cryofixation or microwave fixation. These discussions sometimes become acrimonious, and we at the P.R.I, fear the eventual division of microscopists into rival lab gangs, the “Waves” and the “Cryos”.

Wishing to forestall this, and because Leonard Bernstein is no longer with us to write West Lab Story, we have been working on a method of combining the two fixation methods. Less romantic than rival gang members falling in love perhaps, but more practical.