It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking,… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“The microbiome affects our mood, libido, metabolism, immunity, and even our perception of the world and the clarity of our thoughts. It… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“And in maintaining such constancy, microbes are crucial. They affect the storage of fat. They help to replenish the linings of the… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“(Courtesy of BioVir Laboratories, Inc.) Three years after Koch and Hesse switched to agar-based media, another assistant in the laboratory, Richard J.… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
“Look at life from our perspective, and you eukaryotes will soon cease giving yourselves such airs. You bipedal apes, you stump-tailed tree-shrews,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“A biologist with a history of tooth decay invents a symbiotic microbe which lives in the human mouth and feeds by cleaning… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The team also worked out how the microbes were affecting the brain. Their main suspect was the vagus nerve. It's a long… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and… — John Tanton Copy Share Image
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
“Baclli swarm within my portals Such as ne'r conceived by mortals, But, bred by scientists, Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“One bacterial species stood out, both for its protective powers and for its colour: blackish-purple, ominous but darkly beautiful. It was called… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we… — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Since we're living with antibiotic drugs and chlorinated water and antibacterial soap and all these factors in our contemporary lives that I'd… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
Think about multicellularity on this Earth. Every living thing originally came from bacteria. So, who do you think made up the rules… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
However, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats.… — John E. Walker Copy Share Image
If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Interestingly, there is even less diversity of gut bacteria in obese people than in lean people: more food does not equal more… — Sarah Ballantyne Copy Share Image
“Ironically, a species of resilient bacteria—in fact, the same species in each case—was found in both a NASA and an ESA clean… — Jon Willis Copy Share Image
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
“Deep inside every animal colon, ours included, thrives an entire cosmos of creatures more strange and wondrous than any dreamed up in… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact… — Jessica Green Copy Share Image
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
“The microbiome may vary from day to day, from sunrise to sunset, or even from meal to meal, but such variations are… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
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