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 it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said,… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 don't see… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them. — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share
