It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming 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
Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me? — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or… — Andrew H. Knoll Copy Share Image
Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
The issue I have is that the cooking techniques are up for questioning, today more than ever before. If you waterbath beef… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
When it comes to taking genes from viruses and bacteria and putting them into plants, people say 'Yuck! Why would scientists do… — Pamela Ronald Copy Share Image
What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could… — Marion Nestle 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
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
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov 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
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material. — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years.… — Gore Vidal 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
To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of… — Sandor Katz Copy Share Image
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those… — Marjory Stephenson 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
