Lower Blood PressureSome of the most well-studied bioactive (health-promoting) compounds in beets are called nitrates. When you consume dietary nitrates from foods like beets, your body converts them ...

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.

Compared with other urine analysis methods, urine Gram stain has a moderate predictive value for detecting gram-negative bacteria in urine culture but does not significantly improve urinary tract ...

Gram staining is one way scientists can identify bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus, appear blue or purple under a microscope when scientists apply a stain. Conversely ...

bogdanhoda/Shutterstock.com As you can imagine, it’s challenging to get a handle on all these bacterial species. One tool that helps scientists identify bacteria, first developed nearly 140 years ago, ...

Colorized SEM of four spherical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Researchers compared the effect of Gram stain-guided antibiotics with guideline-based antibiotics for the treatment of ...

Japan: In patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), gram stain-guided therapy was non-inferior to guideline-based treatment and dramatically decreased the usage of broad-spectrum ...