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

Lagrangian real time 3D tracking of bacteria. A free swimming E. coli is kept in focus at all times as it swims near a glass slide and later takes off for the bulk. (Left) Fluorescence image and ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...