I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“This was difficult to prove as most hydrogenosomes have lost their entire genome, but it is now established with some certainty.1 In… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very… — Paul A. Offit Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas 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
“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
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The world around us is a gigantic reservoir of potential microbial partners. Every mouthful could bring in new microbes that digest a… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
You can find bacteria everywhere. They're invisible to us. I've never seen a bacterium, except under a microscope. They're so small, we… — Bonnie Bassler 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
The biggest food-related risk in pregnancy is listeria. It's a dangerous bacteria, to which pregnant women are especially susceptible, that can lead… — Emily Oster 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“Even the majority of the cells in your body are microorganisms. They outnumber the cells of your body by 10 to 1.… — Bill Nye 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
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
“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
“At depth, microbes shrink in size and become extremely sluggish. The liveliest of them may divide no more than once a century18,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
