Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| Needles | BD | 305167 | |
| Stainless steel disposable scalpels | Miltex | 4-410 | |
| Tissue culture dish | Corning | 353003 | |
| Biopsy Cassettes | Thermo Fisher | 58931 | |
| RNA-stabilizing solution | Ambion | AM7021 | |
| 1.5 ml Eppendorf tubes | Phenix | MAX-815 | |
| 50 ml tubes | Corning | 430290 | |
| 10% Neutral Buffered Formalin | StatLab Medical Products | 28600-5 | |
| Formalin Containers | Fisher Scientific | 23-032-059 | |
| Optimal cutting temperature solution (OCT) | Sakura Finetek | 4583 | |
| Tissue-Tek Cryomold | Sakura Finetek | 4557 | |
| Dnase I | Roche | 10104159001 | |
| Collagenase I | Roche | 11088793001 | |
| 70μm cell strainers | BD Bioscience | 352350 | |
| 96 well round bottom plates | Corning | 3799 | |
| Live/Dead stain solution | Life Technologies | L34957 |
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