
Histology Equipment & Supplies
Since 1995, Rankin Biomedical has served the anatomic pathology industry, guided by our core values that drive our daily decisions: Put People First, Find Solutions, Obsess Over Excellence, Lead Through Virtue
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Rankin distributes many of the top histology brands.
Shop All BrandsNew and refurbished equipment for your histology lab. Tissue processors, cassette & slide printers, embedding stations, microtomes, cryostats, slide stainers, and coverslippers.
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We supply a comprehensive line of new and refurbished histology lab equipment and provide equipment PM and repair service, depot refurbishment and repair, replacement parts, equipment installation, operator training, and service agreements.

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- Rankin Biomedical moves headquarters to 35,000 square-foot facilityThis past January, Rankin Biomedical, a family-owned histology laboratory supply company, moved to a new facility with a significantly larger warehouse space. The larger facility has undoubtedly increased workflow and productivity along with allowing the company to store more inventory and efficiently handle growing customer orders. Since the move, Rankin has been able to operate …
- I can never get sections to slide under the anti-roll plate on the cryostat. The sections always seem to bunch up on the edge of the anti-roll plate. What do I need to do to get it to work right?The anti-roll plate is a square or rectangle of plastic or glass that rests against the blade in the cryostat, and allows the tissue to slide between the anti-roll plate and the knife. This allows for flatter sections, which can be picked up on the slide with fewer wrinkles, IF the anti-roll plate is behaving …
- CelLock TM: An innovative standardized cell-block preparation procedureHistology Educational Series In the previous blog we saw that every histology laboratory has a method for preparing paraffin cell-block specimens, and we reviewed those methods. This review showed that all of these methods display various deficiencies with regard to collecting and preserving the entirety of the patient specimen with optimal retention of all of …