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Hi Folks!! Follow our blog on  Instagram Methylene blue , also known as methylthioninium chloride, can be used to stain or highlight parts of  animal, bacteria, and blood tissue specimens  in microbiology. It is used to closely observe the shapes, structures, and locations of dead cells and other tissues. It  is a salt used as a dye and as a medication. METHYLENE BLUE AS A STAIN: Methylene Blue is a cationic stain.  In simple terms, it is a blue dye that is charged positively and binds the negatively charged components of the cells such as the nucleus, DNA or RNA present in the cytoplasm. These cells usually have a low affinity.  The purpose of staining with methylene blue is to determine cell mortality. It is used for the following: Calculating viable cells in a yeast sample. as a surgical and medical marking stain.  as a diagnostic agent in renal function testing.  as a vital nerve staining agent. Identifying RNA Sequences For determining cell d...

Hi Folks!! Follow our blog on  Instagram WHAT IS CACTUS LEATHER? Leather is widely used in almost every industry and most importantly in the fashion arena.   When it comes to leather,  just two choices are there: either reach for a petroleum-based “pleather” garment that would pollute the planet, or wear the skin of a tortured, violently killed animal... and still pollute the planet. As choices go, this one wasn't a winner.  These days, the term “leather” has come to encompass creations made from  pineapples , mushrooms,  cork ,  apples ,  grapes , mangoes and  cactus. HISTORY OF CACTUS LEATHER Desserto is a brand which brought to the world the new vegan leather from the cactus plant. It was first discovered in 2019. It has already won an Internationally recognised award. The founders and innovators Adrián López Velarde and Marte Cázarez beat more than 1,400 nominees from 52 countries to win the VII International Green Product Award in...

Hi Folks!! Follow our blog on Instagram  LAB IN THE BOX ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII    Acinetobacter baumannii is a rod shaped, almost round (coccobacillus)gram negative bacterium, named after the bacteriologist Paul Baumann. It is important as a hospital-derived(nosocomial) infection. It is often found in soil samples, but become resistant to antibiotics in hospital environments. Its natural habitat is still not known. These bacteria lack flagella, may be due to the activity of type IV pili. motility in these bacteria may also be due to the excretion of exopolysaccharide, creating a film of high- molecular weight sugar chains behind the bacterium to move forward.  Acinetobacter has similar morphology from other Moraxellaceae, hence it can be differentiated by performing Oxidase test, as Acinetobacter species are the only members of the Moraxellaceae, to lack cytochrome c oxidases. Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance can be categorized into three groups. First, resistan...

Hi Folks!! Follow our blog on Instagram  LAB IN THE BOX INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT KOMODO DRAGON  (POINT WISE) The Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ) is the world's largest lizard, with a mass up to 90 kg and a length of 3 m. It is restricted to 4 small islands(Komodo, Rinca, Gili motang and Gili Dasami) in Eastern Indonesia The Komodo dragon is also sometimes known as the  Komodo monitor  or the  Komodo Island monitor  in scientific literature,   although these names are uncommon. To the natives of Komodo dragon , it is referred to as  ora ,  buaya darat  ('land crocodile'), or  biawak raksasa  ('giant monitor'). Although previous studies proposed that Komodo dragon saliva contains a variety of highly septic bacteria that would help to bring down prey, research in 2013 suggested that the bacteria in the mouths of Komodo dragons are ordinary and similar to those found in other carnivores. Komodo dragons have good mout...