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  • Step 1 - Create Humid Environment: add 30 mL deionized water to the Omni-Stainer™ S12 base
  • Step 2 - Construct S-type Flow Cell: mounting a Cover Pad on a slide with a sample.
  • The "Yury Method"
  • The "Easy Method"
  • The "Big Drop Method"
  • Step 3 - Place flow cell into the shelf, and insert shelf into base
  • Step 4 - Adhere moisture barrier paper to the lid's bottom, wet it with 10 mL of deionized water
  • Step 5 - Put the lid on the base, matching slanted corners
  • Full Assembly
  • Using a Thermal Sheath?

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S12 Assembly and Sample Prep

How to put together your Omni-Stainer™ S12 system and prepare samples for staining

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Step 1 - Create Humid Environment: add 30 mL deionized water to the Omni-Stainer™ S12 base

Step 2 - Construct S-type Flow Cell: mounting a Cover Pad on a slide with a sample.

Adhesive spacers on the plastic Cover Pads ensure optimal flow cell thickness. The chosen adhesive allows the Cover Pad to slide when wet but holds it in place to prevent lateral staining solution bleed.

To place the coverpad

First remove the coverpad from the plastic film. Then, pre-wet both the coverpad and the slide surface. Then slide on the coverpad over the sample such that the "flow cell" is evenly filled with the liquid (PBS or hydration buffer) without any bubbles (see videos below).

There are multiple methods to build the flow cell "sandwich," aiming to ensure the Cover Pad sits firmly on the slide, and the internal "capillary chamber" contains buffer without any air bubbles.

The "Yury Method"

The "Easy Method"

Easy Method" consists of sliding on the Cover Pad under the layer of PBS or any such compatible buffer inside a suitable reservoir such as a pipette tip box lid.

The "Big Drop Method"

As confidence and experience are built, constructing an S-type flow cell can also be achieved by placing a big drop (250ul) of compatible buffer on top of the slide and then sliding the coverpad over the drop to avoid bubbles.

If bubbles are entrapped – sliding the coverpad such that the bubble is released and then sliding it back after adding a bit more of the liquid allows to "expel" the bubbles

Preparing different sample types

  • Fresh frozen sections: sample needs to be fixed and re-hydrated

  • Cell culture/cell spreads: samples needs to be fixed and re-hydrated

Step 3 - Place flow cell into the shelf, and insert shelf into base

Step 4 - Adhere moisture barrier paper to the lid's bottom, wet it with 10 mL of deionized water

Step 5 - Put the lid on the base, matching slanted corners

Full Assembly

S12 Automation Specs
S12 Manual Specs

Using a Thermal Sheath?

Done! You're now ready to choose Manual or Automated mode and launch the demo!

FFPE sections: a sample needs to be baked, deparaffinized with Xylenes or a suitable alternative, and re-hydrated. If HIER is needed, at this time we recommend it to be. It is possible to do HIER directly in Parhelia Omni-stainer using the Thermal Sheath, but that functionality is experimental and hasn’t been fully tested. Please reach out to us directly at if you would like to try running HIER with Parhelia Omni-stainer.

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Thermal Sheath & Temperature-controlled incubations
Yury Method, slightly more finesse than the "Easy Method" but fits into tissue prep workflows and saves labware.
Easy Method, *Note: Cover Pads now have peelable plastic film on both sides, rather than peel tabs.
This helps to maintain a humid environment and prevents evaporation
Place flow cell into shelf
Place shelf into base
Make sure the holes are aligned if using automation lid
Humidity barrier placement for manual lid
Align the slanted and rounded corners of the lid and base.
Insert sample, then put on lid (automation lid shown)