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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.

~Abbey Lee Kershaw

Topics: Always Bacteria Because Eat Fingers Get Know Much Sick Used You

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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

~Ada Yonath

Topics: Active Activity Actually Advantage Am Bacteria Before Conditions Done Found How Institute Integrity Me Now Preserve Research Robust Same Took Used Very Way While I Am

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Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Available Bacteria Become Died Disease Effective Either End Epidemic Every Host Human Immune Infected Intervention Only Virus Without

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Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Along Bacteria Basic Becomes Cases Devices Dies Diseases Epidemic Follow Host Left Many Others Own Process Same Sick Tend Virus Way Who

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The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Bacteria Broken Chemical Cotton Creating Dead Down Fertilizer Get Growing Highly Lakes Per Pounds Requiring Soil Some Toxic Usual Washed Way Zone

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If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.

~Andrew H. Knoll

Topics: Available Bacteria Biology Carbon Ecological Get Heavy Lifting Like Look Makes Materials Organisms Our Planet Them Ways Which You

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I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.

~Benny Blanco

Topics: Actually Anymore Bacteria Believe Ever Japan Jeans Makes Put Should Smell Them Wash You Your

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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

Topics: Act Bacteria Cells Communities Exactly Exactly The Way Incorrect Individual People Single Think Way

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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Able Adapt Antibiotics Bacteria Being Came Change Could Credit Face Fast First Give Imagined Nobody Out Problem Resistance Today

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

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Geology Iron Made Rocks See

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