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Bonnie Bassler on Talkative Bacteria and Eavesdropping Viruses

The Joy of x

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I Don't Know What to Do

"I remember sitting there thinking, wholly shamuly. I don't bacteria," she says of her first meeting with the scientist. "He taught me to be a scientist, and he gave me my career." He was 'pathologically shy' but they had forced him to come youdon't give this talk because his gran would have been taken away if he didn't show up for it. She still sees him every year at an awards ceremony in New York City.

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