Tag: E. coli

Over 30 European universities, research institutes, and companies, led by GlaxoSmithKline and Uppsala University, are joining forces in a 6-year ...

Escherichia coli—a friendly and ubiquitous bacterial resident in the guts of humans and other animals—may occasionally colonize regions outside the ...

Two small RNAs (sRNAs) working in concert enable the deadly Escherichia coli (EHEC) 0157:H7 to attach to and initiate infection in ...

E. coli (NIAID) The United States Army Medical Materiel Development Activity (USAMMDA) is seeking technology that can improve upon available ...

Macrophage (in red) infected with fluorescent labelled E. coli (in yellow or blue). Bacteria can evolve rapidly to adapt to ...

Sandia National Laboratories scientists are thinking small, building on decades of sensor work to invent tiny detectors that can sniff ...

Lakewood-Amedex Inc., a leading developer of novel anti-infective pharmaceuticals, this week announced that a recent series of in vitro studies conducted by ...

Life Technologies Corporation this week announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate and ...

Pathogenica Inc. announced this week it has entered into an agreement with Illumina, whereby the parties will co-market in the ...

Low doses of silver make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotic attack, paving the way for the revival of old antibiotics ...

A toxin dangerous to humans may help E. coli fend off aquatic predators, enabling strains of E. coli that produce the toxin to survive ...

The Army Contracting Command is soliciting capability statements from GMP or GLP facilities to test a GMP working cell bank ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting market research to procure an automated open platform microbial molecular detection ...

Researchers have launched an early-stage human clinical trial of two related candidate vaccines to prevent infection with Shigella. Antibiotics are ...

USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has updated research priorities relevant to FSIS regulated products. The list provides useful ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Illumina, Inc., a $17 million, five-year contract  to provide the agency ...

A highly virulent strain of E. coli caused the deadliest E. coli outbreak on record last year, leading to 54 ...

Federal agencies last week announced a new collaboration with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and Agilent Technologies to ...

The USDA Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) this week implemented routine verification testing for six added Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) pathogens. ...

The U.S. Army announced a contracting action this week to support development of new food and water assays for use ...