Famous Quotes & Sayings

Last year we couldn't go outside and hunt Easter eggs. She couldn't even touch the grass. Our two little dogs had to go, because they might bring in bacteria or mold.

Many, many bird species are spreading bacteria from one place to another, from one rodent to another, by carrying fleas,

We need to make it very clear that there are no established standards for bacteria in the sand. I'm not sure what that organization will be looking at.

I didn't get the call about the city results until 4:30 in the afternoon. So one of the problems we have is that these tests for indicator bacteria take 24 hours to develop. So really, unfortunately, we're saying we had a problem yesterday.

Traditional methods of detection of bacteria can take days but the biosensor developed by them could take as much time as it takes for a snapshot.

We are continuing to see cases of whooping cough reported to us. And this is not surprising to us considering it can take up to three weeks to show the symptoms once you're exposed to the bacteria that causes whooping cough.

Megan Fox

Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air.

This will prevent harmful bacteria that may be present in uncooked poultry from growing,

There are no bacteria known to be resistant to silver or silver oxide.

Based on tests that were done late last week -- with some increase in the bacteria counts -- we decided to postpone that project for another week just to be cautious.

Basically, there are no standards for bacteria and sand samples, so the question: what does it mean?

We're evaluating a case of meningococcemia, a bacteria that can cause meningitis or a blood infection. When someone gets infected with that bacteria, half of the cases develop meningitis, a third develop infections of the blood.

That birds spread the bacteria is not in question but how important that is in the big picture is not yet clear.

People love to throw grease down (the drain). Bacteria doesn't break down grease, so it turns hard and doesn't go away. You shouldn't throw any type of grease down the drain.

Alex Shoumatoff

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.

What killed my brother were bacteria that were found in the water right there, in that harbor.

What killed my brother were bacteria found right there in the harbor.

What killed my brother was the bacteria that were found in the waters right there in that harbor. Regardless of what is said and done, ultimately, that's the thing that did it. Period.

Stephen Jay Gould

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

We run the risk of changing the kinds of bacteria we confront every day in the home,

Environmental bacteria and viruses are so prolific they're on everything.

John E. Walker

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.

Don't think you can cut around it to cut the mold off, because there is mold and bacteria you can't see.

B. F. Skinner

Vibrio vulnificus is a milder bacteria in the same family as cholera that enters the body through a cut, scratch or wound or by drinking or eating something, often shellfish, contaminated with it. It can be treated with antibiotics if recognized early. If evacuees or rescue workers notice a suspicious wound that's red, swollen or tender at the site of infection and is sometimes accompanied by a fever, they should try to get immediate medical care

Martin Chalfie

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.

Corey Taylor

I do definitely believe that there is life away from this planet. I mean, we've kind of established that with the fact that we found bacteria on meteorites, and we've kind of used that to backtrack and show how this Earth, this planet, could have formed the ability to sustain life in the first place.

Bonnie Bassler

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

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

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

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.

Vandana Shiva

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.

James D. Watson

Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.

The problem with the bacteria hypothesis is that an extremely high concentration of bacteria must exist before they begin to produce light. But what could possibly support the occurrence of such a large population?