New research shows nanoplastics increase pathogen risk, affecting E. coli virulence and gene transfer, posing health hazards.

Nano-lastics Little plastic bits smaller than a speck of dust abound in our food, water, even our bodies. Scientists are now, ...

coli that has struck McDonald's Quarter Pounders. Experts said pathogens—the bacteria that can make us sick—are changing with the weather. "It's an adjustment due to climate change," said ...

The research team analyzed more than 1,000 genomes of the resistant E. coli pathogen isolated from sick dogs and identified a set of genes that evolutionary selection tests revealed were becoming ...

Federal officials are investigating a new outbreak of E. coli O121:H19. A source of the pathogen has not yet been identified. The investigation is in its early stages, and 33 patients have been ...