Empowering Your Lab—Introducing Our “Labs Deciding Tests (LDT)” Promotion

Dear Valued Customer, In celebration of the recent court ruling reaffirming labs’ autonomy in developing their diagnostic tests, Empire Genomics is excited to announce our special “Labs Deciding Tests (LDT)” Promotion! To empower your lab’s validation process with every NEW FISH probe order, we’re offering: FREE SwiftFISH (Rapid Buffer) FREE Wash Buffer FREE DAPI This […]

FDA LDT Rule Overturned—Important Update for Your Lab

Important Regulatory Update: On March 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the FDA’s Final Rule concerning Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). This decision effectively removes FDA-imposed restrictions and reaffirms the oversight of LDTs under CLIA regulations managed by CMS. What does this mean for your lab? Continuing Use of […]

FFPE Slide Optimization Tips & Tricks

This webinar will walk you through protocol optimization of treatment and FISH for FFPE tissue samples, as well as provide troubleshooting tips and tricks for FFPE tissue processing. Upon completing the webinar, a technologist should have an in-depth knowledge of FFPE tissue treatment prior to FISH as well as an in-depth understanding of FISH for […]

Bone Marrow & Blood Protocol Optimization Tips

This episode of ‘Fishing with Ashlee’ will cover interphase FISH with blood and bone marrow samples. The benefits of interphase FISH with blood and bone marrow as well as a protocol for harvesting blood and bone marrow samples will be covered in depth. Images will be presented throughout the webinar to help a technician troubleshoot […]

FISH Troubleshooting 101

This episode of ‘Fishing with Ashlee’ will provide technologists with a plethora of images that depict common processing errors with FFPE tissue samples, blood and bone marrow samples, and other sample types used in FISH. The goal of this webinar is to expose technologists to images that correlate to specific problems in sample processing and […]

NTRK: Understanding Aberrations & Applications

Join our field application specialist Ashlee Dunne in our upcoming webinar on NTRK and its recent interest within the clinical and research community. During this webinar, attendees will learn more about the NTRK genes, their common fusion partners, and what one can expect to see in a normal or abnormal sample.

Frequently Asked Questions About FISH Probes

In this webinar, attendees will learn the answers to some of our most commonly asked questions about probe and slide storage, slide making and processing, and analyzing FISH testing. A technologist who engages in the webinar should expect to leave with an understanding of proper storage of Empire Genomics probes, proper slide making and processing […]

Slide Washing

“Wash Away Your Probe-lems” addresses all things FISH washing. Upon completing the webinar, technologists should have an understanding of the importance of FISH washing, how to make and store proper wash solutions, and techniques involved in FISH washing. Technologists should also come from this webinar with washing tips that can be incorporated into their lab […]