With recent E. coli outbreaks linked to certain foods, it’s important to stay informed about the products you buy and eat, as well as how to recognize symptoms and know when to seek proper care. E.

This is reflected in the bacteria changing shape. Usually, E. coli bacteria are rod-shaped, but when exposed to Ciprofloxacin, they become long filaments. The bacteria prioritize repairing the ...

“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 induction of curvature leads to SARS-CoV-2's spherical shape. "If we can better understand ... overcame this difficulty by using Escherichia coli bacteria as a "factory" to make the M protein ...

Researchers have detailed the first E. coli O103 outbreak in England traced to raw milk cheese. In June 2022, routine ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell? Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes. Aa Aa Aa ...