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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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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

Topics: About Always Cells Each Enormous Function Groups How Lab Organize Other Talk Themselves Then Thinking Unison

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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Cells Everything Higher Human Know Model More Organisms Than Times You

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By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

~Bonnie Bassler

Topics: Bacteria Because Bigger Cells Close Even Human More Numbers Than Weight You Your

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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

Topics: About Also Cells Could Curious Experiments Fantastic Gets How Information Nature Practical Same Scientists Side Them Think Too Understand Works

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If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: After Another Beating Cells Clocks Different Different Times Dish Even Happens Heart Pendulum Rhythm Same Same Thing Start Swing Them Thing Times Touching Wall While Will You

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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 environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: Bit Bone Cells Changed Could Environment Fat First Form More Papers Realized Stem Stem Cells Turn University Were Wisconsin Would Wrote

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We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: Cells Evolved Evolving Extent Form Happening Human Humanity Humans Just Keep Like Now Organization Organize Organizing People Thinking

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My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

~Carnie Wilson

Topics: Cells Einstein Fat Like Magic Many Memory Proof Sabotage Surgery Ways

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Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

~Cate Blanchett

Topics: About Actor Actress Arms Brain Brain Cells Cells Conscious Eye Get Good Good Work How Life Look Never Other Overly Point Precious Respond Starve Them Way Where Will Wind Work You Your Yourself

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