Foodborne illness outbreaks of E. coli O157 infections traced to romaine lettuce continue to be an ongoing public health concern. The most recent such outbreak in November and December 2024 saw 89 ...

Scientists harness a new-to-nature reaction in E. coli to turn discarded plastics into life-saving medicines, charting a sustainable path for chemical manufacturing. a, A comparison of strategies for ...

The Cranberry Institute is excited to announce new research published in American Society for Microbiology which suggests ...

Scientists have identified the enzyme YcaO in E. coli as solely responsible for thioamidating the ribosomal protein uL16, a modification absent in humans but present in several harmful bacteria. This ...

Escherichia coli glycosylation engineering constitutes an exciting frontier in microbial biotechnology, harnessing the intrinsic capabilities of this bacterium to reprogramme and optimise ...

The first large-scale genetic study of E. coli's protective armor has identified the five capsule types that are responsible for 70% of all multidrug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe.

Codon optimization is a central strategy in recombinant protein production, enabling genes from one organism to be efficiently expressed in another. Conventional methods typically replace ...

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is receiving a $25 million federal grant to research various forms of E. coli bacteria. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday it has awarded the grant to ...

Jason Palmer, a natural resource biologist with the Iowa DNR, kneels next to a water pump at Big Creek beach in central Iowa. The pump siphons water from the knee-deep zone of the swimming area ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about why diabetic foot infections can become so severe and difficult to treat. By analyzing the DNA of E. coli bacteria taken from infected wounds around the world ...

The strain of E. coli O157:H7, suspected in the McDonald’s foodborne Illness cases this week, has beset the foodservice industry for decades. E. coli O157:H7 was the strain that in 1992-93 led to an ...