Pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi have stopped a late-stage clinical trial for their experimental E.coli vaccine after results failed to demonstrate sufficient efficacy.

A new study reveals that entacapone, a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease, significantly disrupts the gut microbiome by ...

McDonald's sales took a significant hit in its latest quarter due to an E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions that killed one person and sent over two dozen to the hospital. CEO Chris ...

This important manuscript proposes a new strategy for the identification of new mechanisms of drug resistance based on SAturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast (SATAY), a powerful transposon sequencing ...

The Food for Thought 2025 report shows a total of 1,392 Americans in 2024 became ill after consuming a contaminated food item ...

Introduction: Escherichia coli (E. coli), a ubiquitous opportunistic pathogen, poses a growing threat to human health due to the increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance. However, a ...

It is a common gut bacteria that never normally sees the light of day, but now Chinese scientists have engineered E coli so that it can harness sunlight like a plant. Incorporating a custom ...

In E. coli, the presence of certain group VIIIb transition metal compounds in concentrations of about 1–10 parts per million of the metal in the culture medium causes an inhibition of the cell ...

The water sample from the well showed contamination with E. coli and coliform bacteria, with coliform bacterial counts exceeding 16 per 100 ml of water and that of E. coli being 9 per 100 ml.

Incubate the reaction at 16 °C for 2–4 h. 7| Add to the reaction 1 μl of 50 mM β-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (β-NAD) and 1 μl E. coli DNA ligase (1,000–4,000 units/ml). Incubate the ...