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Using a 3-mL syringe, participants transferred half of the sample to a plastic specimen vial and half to a container of viral transport media.
At the enrollment visit, the colposcopist co-investigator or designee obtained a cervical specimen using a plastic spatula and cytobrush and suspended it in the Thin-Prep specimen vial containing a proprietary media with at least 50%% methanol (Cytyc®, Malborough, MA, USA).
Other samples were hustled to the aquarium laboratory a few hundred yards away to be flash-frozen by dipping the specimen vials in a tank of liquid nitrogen -- which is slightly warmer than the surface of Pluto -- and stored in an ultra-cold refrigerated biological archive.
Analyses involving aqueous suspensions of water-soluble lens proteins were conducted in cylindrical optical glass specimen vials positioned in a rigid holder mounted to the instrument.
A half-dozen researchers and volunteers in white lab coats and cutoffs waded into the surf with plastic buckets, collecting as many as possible, then gently coaxing eggs and sperm into specimen vials before setting them free.
Also, formally tracking the samples used for ancillary analysis would facilitate planning and executing future, related studies that wish to leverage "sister" specimen vials.
Remember that a specimen without a label is only a "dead bug", so be sure to put a label into the vial with every specimen giving the date you caught it, the location and your name.
