E. coli outbreaks are fairly common, with an estimated 265,000 illnesses and 100 deaths each year in the US. But this bacteria, and the illness they cause, aren't something to take lightly.

News of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's stores across several states that has resulted in dozens of people sick and the death of at least one person spread quickly Tuesday when the Centers for ...

With its speedy growth and adaptability, E. coli has spent many years at the top of the "model organism" list, with no signs of slipping. But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The ...

“E. coli is a bug that we all have in our intestines,” explains Britain's leading expert on E. coli, the microbiologist Professor Hugh Pennington. “The vast majority of the hundreds of different ...

So, in fact, the conventionally grown produce is more liable to be contaminated with e. coli than is organic. Both kinds could be contaminated, because these accidents happen. But the ...

I have said this too many times. In the 1990’s ninety percent of the work I did were E. coli O157:H7 cases linked to hamburger. However, due to the ...

McDonald's U.S. sales declined in the fourth quarter of 2024 following an E. coli outbreak linked to its Quarter Pounder hamburgers.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency issued the recall alert for Morbier de Scey and Raclette de Scey cheeses sold in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec.

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How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...