Milestone was founded in 1988 as a company specializing in advanced microwave instrumentation for analytical and organic chemistry labs.
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In 1994, Milestone established a separate Medical division, to transfer their expertise in laboratory grade microwaves to the world of histopathology. They are the first company to design and build a microwave tissue processor specifically for use in the histology lab, and subsequently created the first fully automated, high-throughput microwave processor.
Today, their microwave histoprocessors are used every day in hundreds of medical laboratories around the world, making them the most widely used microwave processors in the field.
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Technology Leadership
Milestone’s pioneering work in vacuum histoprocessing resulted in 1998 in a European Patent EP 822 403 and US Patent 6042.874. Milestone’s process is described in the article “Ultra-Rapid Microwave/Variable Pressure-Induced Histoprocessing: Description of a New Tissue Processor” Journal of Histotechnology, Vol. 21, No. 3, Sept. 1998 by F. Visinoni et al.
- URM - First microwave rapid histoprocessor. EP0822403, US6042874
- Pathos - Automatic microwave histoprocessor. EP1605243,US7075045
- FineFIX - Fixative for molecular biology studies. EU1455174
- TissueSAFE - Process for preserving tissues. EP2070410B1
- CheckLITE - Measuring the thickness of organic samples.US20080318265A1