Bonnie Bassler

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

Well, they do.

So, first of all... So...

they do decay away, right?

Or they get washed away or the bacteria get washed away and then they're alone again.

And so, right.

So they have to start making them again, but they do, they don't, they're not, they don't last forever.

They're signals.

So they, and, and different, some of them are more delicate than others.

So presumably bacteria want long lasting and short lasting signals, you know?

And so what I should tell you before I get to that is that there are multiple words in this lexicon.

So it's not, so,

Of course, we don't know everything about every bacteria, but in these model systems that we study, there are molecules, for example, that one, and as far as we can tell, one and only one species of bacteria makes.

So that molecule says, you are my twin.

You're my clone.

Then there's a molecule that all the bacteria in a family make.

So they say, you're my cousin.

So you're related to me, but you're not my twin, right?

Then there's a molecule that all bacteria make.

It's sort of a universal language that says other.

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