| the giemsa stain: its history and applications. | gustav giemsa was born in germany in 1867, worked mainly as a chemist, and died in 1948. the staining method, which carries his name, was designed primarily for the demonstration of parasites in malaria, but it was also employed in histology because of the high-quality staining of the chromatin and the nuclear membrane, the metachromasia of some cellular components, and the different qualities of cytoplasmic staining depending on the cell type. the use of methylene azure and its mixture with met ... | 2007 | 17652540 |