E. coli bacteria could be used to create biodegradable plastics, reports a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The engineered bacterial system described in the study may help in the ...

Diets low in carbohydrates and soluble fibres can drive the growth of polyps in the colon, increasing the risk of developing ...

Researchers from the University of Toronto have shown how a low-carbohydrate diet can worsen the DNA-damaging effects of some gut microbes to cause colorectal cancer.

A low-carb diet can worsen the cancer-causing effects of certain gut bacteria by weakening the gut barrier and altering the ...

Raetz joined Duke as the chairman of biochemistry in 1993 after his work on this pathway at Merck & Co. had failed to produce a successful clinical candidate. The Merck antibiotic worked, but only ...

Having found an enzyme, AetD, involved in that pathway that synthesizes a nitrile ... once we put the gene encoding this enzyme in E. coli, all of a sudden our fermenter just stank,” Moore ...

They found that a unique strain of E. coli bacteria, when paired with a diet ... in mice with genetic mutations in the mismatch repair pathway that hindered their ability to fix damaged DNA.