Antibiotics Quote by Bonnie Bassler

“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.” quote by Bonnie Bassler — Download Open 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.”

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My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

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By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

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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…

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Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

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You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

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