Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In… — James D. Watson 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is… — Swami Vivekananda 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
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“Importantly, Haemophilus are what are called fastidious bacteria, meaning they need an iron source to grow, and unlike most other bacteria, they… — Stephen Harrod Buhner 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
“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
“(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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects,… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
“According to pioneering microbiologist Lynn Margulis, "fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although… — Marcia Bjornerud Copy Share Image
“As I write, we now consider nature to have given rise to three or four foundational types of living things, or domains… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
Life is all about creating a balance. Moderation is the name of the game. We are what we eat, breathe and think.… — Dr Neil Pande Kathmandu Nepal Copy Share Image
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They… — Ed Yong Copy Share Image
“No one knows the number of bacterial species. About 5,000 species have been characterized and another 10,000 have been partially identified. Biodiversity… — Anne E. Maczulak Copy Share Image
“They're just bacteria. They don't think or plan. They just...exist.' 'Just exist? They do things we only dream of. They are fecund… — Sourdough Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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