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Casts of Fluid Preserved Specimens

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1897))

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Previous writings in the area of natural history casting are exiguous especially in reference to the casting of fluid preserved specimens. The following attempts to recognize the importance of casts as natural history specimens and determine why this method of preservation might be used. This piece goes on to instruct the reader how to create their own casts using a simple method and materials which are readily available to all.

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  1. Natural History Museum at Wallaton Hall, Nottingham, UK

    Sarah Burhouse

  2. School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Thomas P. V. Hartman

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  1. Division of Neuropathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brain Tumor Translational Resource, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    William H. Yong

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Burhouse, S., Hartman, T.P.V. (2019). Casts of Fluid Preserved Specimens. In: Yong, W. (eds) Biobanking. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1897. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8935-5_16

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