Replaceable You Quotes

“The final phase of a slime community is dispersal. Bacteria, now traveling solo again, are carried along on the currents of the bloodstream. If they're not captured and annihilated - say, because the patient is old and/or the immune system diminished- some of these bacteria may haul out upon the shores of an implant elsewhere in the body. in cases of mass dispersal - the "exodus phase" - blood-borne bacteria can overwhelm the immune system and kill their host through sepsis.
Good Lord. How is anyone still alive? "How do you people leave the house in the morning?" I said to the pair on my laptop screen.
Stoodley doesn't dwell on it. "There are two kinds of microbiologists", he said. "There are the ones who say 'Bacteria are everywhere! We've got to sterilize everything!" His wife is one of those. "Then there's the ones who say, "Bacteria are everywhere! And yet we've survived!”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“And here we see how the anus can be used as a substitute for the male brain”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“The Wikipedia entry for “internal anal sphincter” states that in 2011”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“One reason cataract surgery was slow to incorporate replacement lenses—IOLs weren’t routinely used in cataract surgery until the 1970s—is that it took a long time to find a material that wouldn’t provoke an immune assault. (It was a chance discovery. During World War II”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“*​If you buy into Christian miracles”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“When cisgender male surgeons let their sexual worldview dictate their practice”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

“Here’s one place China lags: organ donation. Amid the fast-forward juggernaut of AI and QR and 3D”
― Mary Roach, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy