Talk:Staining

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Rearrangement and refactoring
I'm thinking that trying to divide biological or histological stains up into in vivo and in vitro articles isn't working. I'm planning on merging in vivo staining and in vitro staining into one article in the next few days, unless someone has any serious objections. At the same time, I would move the merged article to the title Stain (biology) and relink the redirects appropriately.

I'll also attack some housekeeping tasks, including adding information for some of the other stains listed on this page (many of which are not in vivo stains, by the way).

Finally, I'll add a section on fluorescent stains, since these play a very important role in modern cell biology.

Any comments? Thoughts? Suggestions as to why this might be an ill-advised venture? --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 21:19, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Great idea. Go for it! - Marshman 03:27, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Wow--there's a weird coincidence. I just moved the page, and was fixing redirects when I saw your comment.  Glad you approve. :)  --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 03:36, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

'Staining dye' redirect. ..
Hi all, a few moths ago someone created the article Staining dye. It was one sentence and so I redirected here. R. Baley (talk) 00:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Collagen stains yellow?
Does Safranin O really stain collagen yellow? The stains file says it stains cartilage yellow but cartilage is a lot more than just collagen. Most of the literature I've been reading has Safranin O staining the glycosaminoglycans orange/red (and you find loads of them in cartilage). Is this a case of mistaken identity? 163.1.181.208 (talk) 22:24, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Cresyl violet stain
Please check and include in the list: Cresyl violet stain. -- C opper K ettle  10:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

This article may have too many section headers
This has been flagged since 2013. I disagree, I think the nature of the article is suited to the layout and that the use of headers is appropriate to the content, I suggest the flag be removed. JohnHarris (talk) 09:56, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Done. JohnHarris (talk) 15:25, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

In vivo vs In vitro section removal?
It seems to me that having a whole section for "In vivo vs In vitro" is not needed and will just confuse the reader. In vivo or vital staining is real thing and should be mentioned, but maybe with a subsection, of even just a few sentences that link to the main vital staining page. I would propose removing the "In vivo vs In vitro section" and adding a heading called "Histologic staining", "Biological staining", or something like that, which would include "In vivo staining". This would mean that all the headings below would have to be reduced one level so that other non-biological microscopy staining could have the same level heading as biology. Does anyone have any feedback on that idea, other suggestions, or general disagreement with the proposal? Waughd (talk) 22:52, 6 June 2019 (UTC)