Biotechnology is a powerful, controversial and critical topic dealing with disease, genetics, and the use of microorganisms or other biological substances to make industrial or manufacturing processes. Biotechnology has spawned many new ideas and discoveries to benefit society. It plays a part in he...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae along with Shigella, Yersenia, Klebsiella, Salmonella, and Proteus spp. These are microbes that are normally seen worldwide in soil, water, vegetation, and even as normal flora of the gastrointestinal tract (Cohen, Powderly, Op...

Introduction Since the dawn of the last century, man's technological capabilities and knowledge of science have been developing and expanding at a rapid rate and as a result of that, they have been researching, developing, manufacturing, and using "weapons of mass destruction."1 T...