The CDC said an E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers has led to 10 hospitalizations and one death.

An international team has discovered that the helical arrangement of porins and lipoprotein PapS is crucial for the curvature ...

Bacteria come in a wide variety of shapes, which are important for their fitness in their respective ecological niches.

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and ...

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, ...

Ice may not spoil and become unsafe to eat over time, but there are a few good reasons why you'll want to store it correctly ...

Moving through the world as a microorganism isn’t always easy. Bacteria and other small creatures squirming inside bodies often have to propel themselves through thick, viscous environments. For a ...

Once the cell envelope loses its shape, all of the bacteria eventually burst open and die ... In Caulobacter, the sugar molecules resemble closed rings, and in E. Coli, they look like trees, with ...

RIT biomedical engineering faculty member discovers new micro-technique to differentiate disease-causing pathogens faster for ...

Bacteria and other small creatures squirming ... Nature has already come up with creative solutions to this sticky problem. E.coli, for example, uses a corkscrew motion to cut through the muck ...

Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology ... at the genomes of a whole bunch of different strains of Escherichia coli, a bacteria in which different strains repeatedly evolve in convergent ...