By analyzing E. coli protein levels, scientists found a surplus of membrane shuttle proteins that may play a role in antibiotic resistance.

Johnson & Johnson and partner Sanofi will stop a late-stage trial of an experimental vaccine to prevent infections caused by ...

Doctor’s age and bacteria’s nature prompt check of possible causes such as chemical exposure, autoimmune issues and radiation ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

The European Commission has adopted legislation requiring EU countries to do Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) during foodborne ...

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), including carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli, pose a major risk to patients and healthcare systems in the ...

Researchers have documented the first enteroinvasive E. coli outbreak in Thailand. An enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) outbreak affecting 154 people was ...

Key findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer, the incorporation of foreign bacterial genetic material into the beetle genome, which is thought to be the result of earlier symbioses.

"It appears that RapA and Rho work as complementary -- not redundant -- safeguards for genome stability when E. coli are subject to high-salt stress." The implications could be vast. Darst ...