What is a sputum Gram’s stain? A sputum Gram’s stain is a laboratory test that allows your doctor to diagnose a bacterial infection in your respiratory tract. They may order it if you have symptoms of ...

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 ...

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 bacteria ...

Chemists have developed a fluorescent probe, BacGo that can detect Gram-positive bacteria precisely and promptly. The research team used bacterial sludge from wastewater for the demonstration ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Feb., 1924), pp. 105-109 (5 pages) Acetone, or iodine and acetone, serves as a superior decolorizer in the acid-fast stain as in the Gram stain. The ...

TODAY’S Google Doodle celebrates Danish microbiologist Hans Christian Gram. But who was he and what did he discover? Hans Christian Gram was a Danish microbiologist who Google is celebrating today on ...