I think the easiest application to help people understand…

We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why…

— Bonnie Bassler

“Communities contain a messaging system in which identical cells or unrelated cells respond to each other and change their behavior. This adaptation is called…

— Anne E. Maczulak

“Organizing a working majority proved harder than we thought because we couldn't get a quorum. But one day in December, twelve people showed up,…

— Junius Williams

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In…

— Ambrose Bierce

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being…

— Bonnie Bassler

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going…

— Bonnie Bassler

Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to…

— Carl Zimmer

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

— Mayim Bialik

I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it…

— Suzanne Whang

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production…

— Alice Waters

I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the…

— Nargis Fakhri

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of…

— Michael Greger

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues…

— Moby

When we prescribe antibiotics for a strep throat, it's not even for the strep throat. It's for the complications of the strep throat.

— Mikhail Varshavski

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam