Quote by Bobby Akart

“If I’m right, a new antibiotic will be created that fights Y. pestis using three different mechanisms.”

— Bobby Akart

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

“Genetically modified organisms. You are what you eat…”

— Michael R. Hicks

“Yeah. Penicillin. You know that? It's made of mold. Pretty cool huh, how one kind of rottenness can cure another kind of rottenness.”

— David Krae

“Political life is best treated with antibiotics.”

— Colin Tegerdine

“Sixty years on, we know that HGT is one of the most profound aspects of bacterial life. It allows bacteria to evolve at blistering…

— Ed Yong

“Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its sensitivity to…

— Lee Spetner

“If there’s a takeaway from working here, it’s an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not…

— Laurie Nadel

“You will have worked out that there is a race in this world that steals and kills and spreads disease and despoils what it…

— Terry Pratchett

“The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.”

— Sandor Ellix Katz

“Food is medicine. Food is the most powerful drug on the planet.”

— Rick Warren

“Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.”

— Steven Pressfield