An oral fixation can result if a person doesn’t receive certain stimuli as a child. It can lead to unusual habits in adulthood, such as nail biting and eating ice. In the early 1900s, psychoanalyst ...

For histological investigations of biological tissues, i.e. anatomical studies under the microscope, samples are usually fixated to prevent them from decaying. Fixation is typically done by immersing ...

The two main fixation formats used by researchers are formalin fixation followed by paraffin embedding (FFPE) or snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen (referred to as Fresh Frozen or FF). There is less of a ...