Nine families are suing a California-based produce company after more than 90 cases of serious E. coli infections were found ...

A series of E. coli cases was first reported in November in St. Louis County, Mo., but the FDA never released any information ...

A report uncovered by NBC News has found that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not disclose a deadly E. coli ...

The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly ...

The New American Golden Age is something of a crapshoot—in every sense of the word, including the literal. From NBC News: An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in ...

"Human body temperature (37°C) increases the expression of iron, carbohydrate, and amino acid utilization genes in Escherichia coli K-12." Journal of Bacteriology. 2007. Vol. 189(15):5429–40. Epub ...

Documents released to this masthead under freedom of information laws have revealed that the mysterious balls contained Enterococci, e.Coli and thermotolerant e.Coli. The detected bacteria are ...

E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The engineered bacterial system described in the study may help in the ...

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 ...

Spinach and mixed salads have been restocked in Australia's major supermarkets after a widespread E. coli recall. Growers say they are doing their best to make sure fresh produce is safe.