{"id":18,"date":"2007-01-31T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2007-01-31T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:54:30","slug":"they-did-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"They did it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to our library staff and the people at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (from whom this comes) I was able to get a copy of the original “Gram Stain” paper…<\/p>\n

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I don’t know whether to be annoyed (that someone else beat me to it) or happy (because now I’ll be able to double-check my translation) but it appears the ASM<\/span> actually already has a translation of the paper online<\/a>. Interestingly, the attached commentary states that the Gram stain even works on bacterial protoplasts<\/span>. If that’s true, then all this stuff I keep getting told about the action of the Gram stain being due to the cell walls themselves is incorrect. I wonder, do Gram-positive bacteria also have thicker inner membranes? Or is the commentary full of it?<\/p>\n

Why this article didn’t originally show up when I was poking around Google looking for it by the title, I don’t know.<\/p>\n

Next request will be for the “Everything is Everywhere” paper…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to our library staff and the people at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (from whom this comes) I was able to get a copy of the original “Gram Stain” paper… I don’t know whether to be annoyed (that someone else beat me to it) or happy (because now I’ll be able to double-check … Continue reading They did it!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microbiology","category-nerdity","category-why-does-it-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}