Cells Quotes

1020 Cells quotes by 741 unique authors

We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. — Unknown Author
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. — Henry Markram
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. — Iain McGilchrist
It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of… — Cynthia Kenyon
One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the… — Bruce Lipton
We evolved living in more sunlight than today. We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people living in the… — Paul Stamets
Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of… — Paul Stamets
I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors,… — Diane Ackerman
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. — Dr. Seuss
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all… — James Rothman
From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a… — Emile Durkheim
I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer… — Patrick Soon-Shiong
Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly being born in… — David Perlmutter
Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand. — David Perlmutter
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is… — Scott Stossel
A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws light on the mind/brain problem will have to… — Tony Hoare
Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down… — Nelson Mandela
I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy. — Ranbir Kapoor
We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and… — Michael Specter
Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant… — Seth Shostak
My brain cells are dying in their trillions. — Tom Stoppard
You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was… — Eric Kandel
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning. — Eric Kandel
The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates furiously, it has decoys to evade the immune system, it… — Seth Berkley
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live.… — Sherwin B. Nuland

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