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Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses

The Joy of x

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What Do Bacteria Do in a Colony?

Bacteria can do things as a collective, through team work, that are astonishing. But individually, they're tiny and and sort of namby pambies. So then the question is, what daes our bacterium do in agre rit? We don't understand all the genes. Different bacteria need to do different biology depending on where they ev olved in,. What niche they live in.

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