A newly discovered bacterium is changing the way scientists understand bacterial size and complexity. Published in thejournal ...

Time-lapse analyses of millions of antibiotic-stressed Escherichia coli characterize the diverse single-cell dynamics of persister cells that depend on antibiotics, culture conditions, and ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly opened and closed an investigation into an outbreak of a particularly virulent strain of Escherichia coli, better known as the deadly bacteria E.

The genome structure—how genes are organized within DNA sequences in an organism—is fundamental to the processes and ...

coli outbreak last year that spread across 15 states and infected 89 people, one of whom died. The outbreak was linked to romaine lettuce — with the first case being recorded in St. Louis County ...

coli infections were found by the FDA Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously an entertainment reporter at The ...

Kim et al, Contaminated drinking water facilitates Escherichia coli strain-sharing within households in urban informal settlements, Nature Microbiology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41564-025-01986-w ...

Scientists have reported a substantial increase in non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections in England in recent years. A study assessed how trends have been affected by factors ...

coli outbreak that was not disclosed to the public. The outbreak — which killed one person and sickened at least 88 more — was linked to romaine lettuce and spanned at least 15 states ...