E. Coli News

Indoor Healthy Air, LLC, based out of Southern Maryland, announced today the availability of their new product: the Air Scrubber Purification System, which distributes charged particles throughout the conditioned space of homes and businesses for proactive air treatment.

Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell.

Recent advances in EMCCD technology have solved the problem of non-standardized measurement units by using the photoelectron to standardize imaging experiments.

The Milford Water Co. was fined $50,000 yesterday and agreed to upgrade its operations after the state Department of Environmental Protection found that the company had misled regulators and had failed to conform with regulations for years leading up to last summer's 13-day drinking water ban.

Anacor Pharmaceuticals today announced that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase I clinical study for AN3365, a novel boron-based, small-molecule drug candidate in development for the treatment of hospital infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria.

There may be several known causes of seizures and also a variety of effects that can surprise sometimes.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will mark up a bill to improve food safety this Wednesday, November 18.

" ARTES Biotechnology, specialized in recombinant protein production and process development from yeast expression systems, and Rhein Minapharm Biogenetics, a subsidiary of Minapharm SAE jointly announced the successful production of a new target of a therapeutic protein.

Food-borne illness affect nearly 76 million people in the United States every year according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention .

Combination drug therapy has become a staple for treating many infections. For instance, doctors treat extensively drug resistant forms of tuberculosis with one drug that breaks down the pathogen's protective barriers and opens the door for another to deliver the deathblow.

Long after the painful stomach cramps and bloody diarrhea of a brush with tainted food are over, many people suffer long-term health effects, mostly unrecognized, that are the result of food-borne pathogens.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Genetics ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 14 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST Cooperation is seen in every corner of life from microbes to humans, many times with no obvious advantages to those that provide it at high costs.

Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Also Included In: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals ; Public Health ; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 13 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST Over the next several weeks, the U. S. Senate has an historic opportunity to take a major step toward improving food safety for all Americans.

Legend has it that raw oysters are good for love - but they're also worth fighting over, as the Food and Drug Administration has learned.

Most food-borne illnesses last only a few days, but in some cases, they can have long-term consequences, particularly in children, U.S. researchers say.

BIO-phages and BIO-phage-derived proteins, mainly pVIII, were detected in E. coli by using the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method with electron microscopy.

Foodborne diseases , including salmonella and E. coli , affect millions of people in the U. S. every year - causing acute illnesses, hospitalizations and even deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

More than just a bad bout of stomach flu, some food-borne illnesses can cause long-term consequences, especially for young people, a report released on Thursday has found.

Scientists at the University of York have discovered how certain bacteria such as Escherichia coli have evolved to capture rare sugars from their environment giving them an evolutionary advantage in naturally competitive environments like the human gut.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 11 Nov 2009 - 9:00 PST The Health Protection Agency reports that the total number of confirmed cases of E Coli O157 linked to Godstone Farm in Surrey remains 93.