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I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

~Bonnie Bassler

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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

Topics: Antibiotics Bacteria Became Become Following Going Improved Life Longevity Our Produced Quality Quality Of Life Resistant Thought War Were World World War World War Ii

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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

Topics: About Bacteria Because Day Every Every Day Fast Great Grow Overnight Surprise Waiting You

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All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Allow Bacteria Bad Coat Digest Eat Even Food Foods Gut Live Off Our Protect Proteins Skin Us Without You Your

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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.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Bad Breathe Breathing Covered Eat Every Food Get Lives Moment Most Mostly Our Our Lives Sick Single Time You

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I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Actually Blah Doing Fundamental Help Help People Imaginary Learning Lifetime Make More People Practical Principles Really Science Something Than Think Want Where I Think

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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

Topics: Afraid Antibiotics Application Bacteria Been Could Create Deaf Easiest Either Help Help People Important Infection Make Mute New People Sick Study Tell Them Think Understand Why I Think

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The goal of scientists is you hope that the thing you're working on is bigger than the thing you're pipetting into that tube at that moment.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bigger Goal Hope Moment Scientists Than Thing Tube Working You

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In my lab, we are always thinking about how cells, bacterial cells, can talk to each other and then organize themselves into enormous groups that function in unison.

~Bonnie Bassler

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As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Also Always Animals Books Doing Had Kid Loved Mystery Pets Puzzles Reading Riddles Solving

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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