E. coli is a well-known risk factor in food preparation and hygiene, but how does it cause damage in the body and how does an outbreak have the power to send hundreds to hospital, potentially with ...

In 1857, a young pediatrician named Theodor Escherich discovered what may very well be the most well-studied organism today. The rod-shaped bacterium named Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli, ...

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The federal government covered up an outbreak of E. coli that killed one person and spread across at least 15 states, according to a report published April 17. A series of E. coli cases was first ...

New research examines how the bacteria Escherichia coli, or E. coli -- responsible for most UTIs -- is able to use host nutrients to reproduce at an extraordinarily rapid pace during infection despite ...

Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school. Neel Joshi, a ...

One person has died and at least 10 others hospitalized in an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers in 10 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Most ...

The CDC has opened an investigation into the fast food giant after tainted Quarter Pounders left one dead, 10 hospitalized and dozens ill. At least 49 people in various states have become ill after ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

The strain of E. coli O157:H7, suspected in the McDonald’s foodborne Illness cases this week, has beset the foodservice industry for decades. E. coli O157:H7 was the strain that in 1992-93 led to an ...

In today’s New York Times I have an article about the quest to create a virtual organism a sort of digital Frankenstein accurate down to every molecular detail. The creature that the scientists I ...

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