We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are. — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The oil acts like a cleanser. When you put it in your mouth and work it around your teeth and gums it… — Bruce Fife Copy Share Image
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of… — Bill Bass Copy Share Image
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than… — Mike Duran Copy Share Image
Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“So why, you are bound to ask at some point in your life, do microbes so often want to hurt us? What… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Biologists discovered the microbiome just over the past couple of decades. They are still puzzling out how the microbes in your body… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
“Consider the difference in size between some of the very tiniest and the very largest creatures on Earth. A small bacterium weights… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“York from a Dutch neighbor who had immigrated from Java.” People living in the warm East Indian climate noticed that birds gathered… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Drinking lots of alcohol makes the gut leakier, allowing microbes to more readily influence the brain. Could that help to explain why… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E.… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“This is a miracle of coevolution—the bacteria that coexist with us in our bodies enable us to exist. Microbiologist Michael Wilson notes… — Sandor Ellix Katz Copy Share Image
“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his… — James C. Dobson Copy Share Image
“The Greek word for kernel is karys, so the word used to describe creatures without a nucleus is prokaryotic—the name, originally procariotique,… — William Rosen Copy Share Image
“Most animals can't tap into these open-source adaptations deliberately. The flies didn't seek out Spiroplasma to solve their worm problem. Woodrats didn't… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“Of course I'd long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn't much like… — John Green Copy Share Image
“When Hamiltonella's genome was sequenced, the real reason behind the bacterium's protective powers became apparent: about half of its DNA actually belonged… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“We may not like thinking about it, but germs crawl eternally over every speck of our planet. Our own bodies are bacterial… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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