Microbe Hunter Mugs

Lyme Disease Research Lab

Disease Management

"Tour de Frank"

'But Timmy, you have to eat your antibiotics, or you'll never become a big and strong bacteria.'

Scientist counting microscopic things he can see in his microscope

'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest algologist of all?'

When bacteria trash talk to antibodies. Oh yeah?! You and what course of antibiotics?!

"I'm going to get you fired."

Down a the lab - Germs "So what will you do when you grow up?" "Oh the usual...divide,multiply,infect,kill.."

'That which does not kill me, make me stronger.'

"Pssst! - Gerald, you've mutated again. . ."

DNA Analysis.

'That new antibiotic seems to be working. Time to evolve again.'

Gene Therapy

'It's a deal. You don't infect me, and I don't infect you.'

"That new antibiotic seems to be working. Time to evolve again."

'Since Fleming already beat you to it with penicillin, I take it we can dispose of your week-old sandwich?'

There's Nothing Worse Than A Staff Infection

Footballer and Bacteria.

'Ah, now's there's something different....'

Viral Pathology Center (janitor finding three dead bodies)

"Hey!-This looks like a good place!"

"Are you sure this is a 'Flu virus?" "See for yourself...it's nose is running!"

'A geneticist laid bare my genetic blueprint, and I feel violated.'

We'll have to reproduce fast to defeat the antibodies! I get it! Divide and conquer!

Until Bob entered her life, Lisa never even knew the meaning of the phrase 'acute multiple drug-resistant infection by transgenic Staphylococcus aureus.

'You tell me how to give them a fever, and I'll tell you how to make them cough.'

Cell splitting - don't do that.

'Catch this!'

'I don't believe it - if this evidence is correct it'll rock the very foundations of our research grant application.'

"I know you've been together a long time, but I'm sorry... Your microbiome can't follow you in."

"I'm trying to grow a cancel culture – but it keeps dividing and dividing until there's nothing left."

'Not only was the superbug immune to antibiotics, but it had developed a taste for Dr Jones' whisky.'

"To be honest, I'm not really surprised to hear your relationship isn't working out. You're not the first bacterium and penicillium to sit in those chairs and you certainly won't be the last."

Biologists often consult with microbiologists.