The Latest Breaking News from Bacteria

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, is a very common microbe residing in your gut. It’s also the workhorse of early molecular biology.

Over the past twenty years, Lyme disease cases have continued to climb, and we are finally tantalizingly close to another vaccine.

Concerns raised after tests found stretch of river used for world-famous event had dangerous bacteria

Scientists encode bacterial toxin into mRNA molecules to induce cancer cells to produce self-destructive protein.