Collagen Hybridizing Peptide stain is a vital stain used for the detection of collagen degraded tissues, mainly used in...
Hematoxylin is extracted from a leguminous plant, known as Haematoxylon campechianum, thus it is a natural dye. It forms...
Acridine Orange contains metachromatic properties, that’s why it is employed in fluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry study of cellular...
Toluidine blue is a basic thiazine metachromatic dye that stains nuclei blue, and can be used to differentiate different...
Sudan Black is a slightly basic dye and will combine with acidic groups in compound lipids, thus staining phospholipids...
Production of parasporal crystals is a unique ability (among Bacillus species) of Bacillus thuringiensis. This stain is a means...
In 1930, Leifson introduced a simple flagella stain, using this stain he observed that mutations leading to nonflagellated from...
Flagella can not be seen under a bright-field microscope by using ordinary stains. A simple and useful method has...
Capsule staining is a differential staining method, where two different stains are used such as the primary stain and...
There are two methods which are commonly used to stain bacterial endospore such as Schaeffer Fulton and Klein methods.
In negative staining method, an acidic dye is used known as India Ink or Nigrosin. When the bacterial cells...
The main purpose of simple staining is to determine the cell shape, size, and arrangement of bacterial cells.
Kinyoun method also known as Kinyoun stain (cold method), was first developed by Joseph J. Kinyoun.
A bacterial smear is a thin layer of bacterial cell/culture which is placed on a clean, grease-free microscopic slide...
Ziehl Neelsen stinging method is used to differentiate between the acid-fast and non-acid fast bacteria.
Gram-staining used to differentiate between Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria.
Chlamydomonas are single-celled green flagellates while Volvox is a part of colonial phytoflagellate that develops a hollow spheroid with...
Rhizopus is a multicellular, saprophytic fungi and found on plants. They are parasitic on animals.
Penicillium can be found in a freezer that has not been cleaned for a duration of 2 months or...