McDonald’s tries to comfort their customers
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggested fresh onions served raw on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders were a likely source of contamination in a preliminary investigation into an E.coli outbreak at McDonald’s in the country. McDonald’s officials said in a statement that some illnesses may have been linked to onions from a single supplier. McDonald’s said it is searching for a new supplier for onions.
Scientists are working on the genes of gutbacteria in living mice
Scientists have created a method that could be used to directly edit genes of specific bacteria in mice’s guts, which has previously been difficult to accomplish due to the complexity of this environment. The tool was able to edit over ninety percent of an E. coli strain in mice guts with other work showing it could be used to edit genes in other strains.