A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a virtual Gram staining technique that could transform how microbiologists stain and classify bacteria.

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 ...

Hans Christian Gram, the inventor of the Gram staining technique, was a pioneering biologist who devised the system of classification which led to as many as 30,000 formally named species of ...