With delicate hues of purple and pink, a lab technique called gram staining has reliably characterized bacteria for more than a century. Yet many scientists are mistaken about why the vivid method ...

Similar outcomes in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) suggest that antibiotics selected by Gram staining were noninferior to those based on guidelines and also significantly ...

Here’s the second installment of our series that profiles, in images and words, each and every resident of Bates’ newest academic building, Bonney Science Center, as they begin to engage with their ...

Being a cationic dye, crystal violet can be used to stain negatively charged polymers such as DNA 18 and cell walls of bacteria, the latter of which is partially the basis of Gram staining to ...

Recently we have done two differential stains, the Gram stain and the Acid Fast stain. Both stains differentiate between bacteria chemically. The two staining techniques of Lab 4 differentiate by ...

THE direct observation of the site of Gram stain in cells of micro-organisms could not be attempted before the ultra-thin section technique became available. However, to obtain a suitable section, ...

Through the gradual acceptance of an exact method of gram staining two unfortunate by-products have arisen: the waste of countless hours of . . . Select the format you want to export the citation of ...

2 WORCESTER, MASS. (From the Service of Dr. F. C. Shattuck and the Pathological Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital.) ...