Researchers in Fiji's informal settlements are using their own footsteps to detect the hidden pathogens in soil that ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The engineered bacterial system described in the study may help in the production ...

“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 ...