82 Quotes About Bacteria

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 them, but they are everywhere.

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 bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.

What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.

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.

That's more than three years ago. We're not sure if the old vaccine is starting to wear off or he may have a strain of meningococcal bacteria not covered by that vaccine.

The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.

Bacteria become resistant in the gut of the cow and then, if we become sick from that form of bacteria, we can't be treated with the antibiotic because suddenly we're dealing with resistant strains.

It looks very unlikely that the substance contains any bacteria of any significant pathological significance.

It's due to the damage you incur by having the bacteria in your brain, and by your own inflammatory (swelling) response.