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 can all act together and make an impact. — 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
