Bonnie Bassler

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

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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

So you can get a skin infection, you know, when you have an invader there, but no, that biofilm that you can't see your field that's on your skin is

is covering up all of the surface and keeping bad bacteria that happen to land on you that you also can't see or that you run into from getting any real estate.

And now your skin's a funny thing.

Your skin, you know, you make new skin cells and you slough them off all the time.

That's part of your defense against predatory bacteria, right?

But your skin gets colonized again and again and again by these bacteria that keep us healthy.

Correct.

So I think that when we look at what...

Again, we don't know what all the molecules are, right?

I need a job, so I'm still trying to figure this out, right?

But the molecules, they're not like fancy...

molecules with lots of parts.

They're very simple.

And we know how many of them are made, the ones we've discovered.

And they're made from very ancient substrates like amino acids, fatty acids, very ancient central substrates that every organism has.

And so they're kind of cheap.

And when you look at them, they look kind of like these reactions were happening to make something

And this was the leftover.

And it probably got leaked out like it was garbage, right?

It just got leaked out.

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