Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the role of a gene called PTPN2 in protecting the gut from harmful bacteria ...

Researchers from New England Biolabs (NEB®) and Yale University describe the first fully synthetic bacteriophage engineering system for Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an antibiotic-resistant bacterium of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: USDA.gov Nearly 3,000 pounds of ground beef across six states was recalled on Saturday due ...

The raw beef tested positive for the presence of E. coli O26 in a routine inspection from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Mountain ...

King County Public Health is investigating an E. coli outbreak linked to a teriyaki restaurant in Bellevue. Five people have fallen sick — four of them seriously enough to be hospitalized. All of them ...

Oysters in particular are an essential part of the festive season in France, where people often serve towering seafood platters featuring dozens of oysters. This is perhaps not surprising, because ...

Multiple children were hospitalized with life-threatening conditions after visiting the Arizona State Fair's petting zoo. Officials justify withholding information by stating there is no longer an ...

At least four children who were hospitalized touched a pig at the petting zoo before getting sick. The petting zoo lacked hand-washing stations, offering only hand sanitizer, which does not kill E.

Scientists have used genetically engineered bacteria to simultaneously create and color fabrics in a one-pot method. Compared with current methods that rely on fossil fuels, the new technique offers a ...

Researchers have, for the first time, estimated how quickly E. coli bacteria can spread between people — and one strain moves as fast as swine flu. Using genomic data from the UK and Norway, ...

Bacteria that often cause urinary infections can spread as rapidly as swine flu. But E. coli that are resistant to several classes of antibiotics behave differently. Escherichia coli (E. coli) are the ...

Proteins are synthesized through two processes involving DNA: transcription, which converts DNA into mRNA; and translation, where ribosomes read the mRNA and sequentially link amino acids to form ...