Bonnie Bassler

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763 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

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One bacterium, it's inconsequential, the amount of anything it can make.

But together, it's public goods.

I get the benefit of what you do.

You get the benefit of what me do.

And then these bacteria succeed.

The eukaryote, meaning the human or the plant, may get sick or may get healthy, but the bacteria succeed in their task.

Right.

We're the ones that say the task is good or bad.

Right.

For them, these tasks are all good.

Oh, yeah.

I really know whenever I get have a cold.

I also work on viruses of bacteria.

So whenever I get a cold or I get a virus, I am just I I'm just like, oh, my life's work.

Yeah.

So biofilms are the predominant way we think that bacteria live in nature, which is adhered to surfaces covered in this goop.

And so the biofilm you know about mostly is the one on your teeth every morning, right?

You brush that gudge off and it's back there the next day.

That is a bacterial biofilm.

It has 600 species of bacteria.

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