My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that. Bonnie Bassler bacteriumdarkglow Change image and share on social
What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight. Bonnie Bassler bacteriumdayfast Change image and share on social
We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too. Bonnie Bassler cellcuriousexperiment share on social
So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses. Bonnie Bassler alberteinsteingenius Change image and share on social
It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do. Bonnie Bassler actasocialbacterium Change image and share on social
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant. Bonnie Bassler antibioticbacteriumenormously Change image and share on social
By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close. Bonnie Bassler bacteriumbigcell Change image and share on social
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 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. Bonnie Bassler afraidantibioticapplication share on social
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning. Bonnie Bassler bacteriumhundredlive Change image and share on social
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time. Bonnie Bassler bacteriumchickenchildhood share on social