The outbreak has sickened people in California, Texas and Florida. The agency said Cheddar cheese products from Raw Farm are ...

Cornell scientists have engineered E. coli to act as a sensitive biosensor for monitoring environmental arsenic, a toxic pollutant most notably found in rice paddies in Southeast Asia. Their new study ...

But when antibiotics are ineffective, some rod-like bacteria, such as E. coli, elongate as a stress response, lengthening without reproducing. These long E. coli cells can swim their way into tubes, ...

Some bacteria do not defeat antibiotics by evolving resistance right away—they outlast treatment by slipping into ...