We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

The outbreak is believed to have been linked to Chipotle restaurants. — -- As the E. coli outbreak believed to be linked to West Coast Chipotle restaurants grows, the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Researchers have developed a reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-based absorbance biosensor capable of detecting Escherichia coli (E. coli) DNA with high sensitivity and selectivity. Image Credit: Ustyna ...

Artificial intelligence has crossed a new threshold in biology, helping design viruses that can seek out and kill drug resistant bacteria such as dangerous strains of E. coli. Instead of discovering ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...