Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. — Robert Jackson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car. — James Walsh Copy Share Image
Happiness and bacteria have one thing in common; they multiply by dividing! — Rutvik Oza Copy Share Image
If you go far enough back, your genome connects you with bacteria, butterflies, and barracuda - the great chain of being linked… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back. — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to… — Yahya Jammeh Copy Share Image
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
...The large majority of those infectious microbes that cause us so much illness and pain are ANAEROBIC...a big word that means they… — Ed McCabe Copy Share Image
We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Why do girls take there heels off at the club? There going to end up getting fungus, and it's not cute, in… — Ella Rojas Copy Share Image
Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and… — Robert Morse Copy Share Image
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I would have bacteria and, yeah, it would grow in what we call the danger zone, which is typically between 40 and… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
You are one miniscule piece of a never-ending cycle. In fact, you're not even a piece. You're just a holder for billions… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature… — Robert Frenay Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Humans are actually reservoir hosts for countless bacteria and viruses that haven’t even been classified yet. About twenty percent of the genetic… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“The data might tell tales with preposterous plots, but they don't lie. They tell us that the citrus mealybug is a mash-up… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The procedure works along the same principles as a probiotic, but rather than adding just one strain of bacteria, or even 17,… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his… — Felix D'Herelle Copy Share Image
“We have already seen how pliable the microbiome can be. It can change with a touch, with a meal, with a parasitic… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“The bacteria don't physically reshape the gut themselves. Instead, they work via their hosts. They are more management than labour. Lora Hooper… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“For example, all three partners cooperate to make nutrients. To create the amino acid phenylalanine, they need nine enzymes. Tremblaya can build… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“John McCutcheon has worked out the origins of this weird hierarchy-and it's almost unbelievable in its twists and turns. It begins with… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“When microbiologists first started cataloguing the human microbiome in its entirety they hoped to discover a "core" microbiome: a group of species… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
