Scientists have taken an important step toward the development of a potential new treatment for treating Shiga ...

“The vast majority of the hundreds of different E. coli variants are are quite harmless unless they get into the wrong place.” [E. coli] only causes illness 'when we eat manure from cows that ...

Chipotle had an E. Coli scandal that literally threatened to put the company out of business. In a single year, the company's ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered how certain E. coli bacteria in the gut promote colon ... "It turns out these strains hold a FimH variant that is not very good in binding so that the colibactin toxin ...

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Escherich, the German physician who discovered Escherichia coli. Jörg Hacker and Gabriele Blum-Oehler reflect on the life of Escherich ...