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.

This diagnostic method has several advantages ... However, practitioners are not usually familiar with performing in-office Gram-stain-based diagnosis, and hence point-of-care testing will ...

a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and ...