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

It's like the army.

If you don't say, go one, two, three, shoot, they don't know to do it.

And so you're just trying to buy time for the immune system to get rid of them, which is what your immune system is doing all the time.

It's doing surveillance.

It's just that these few pathogenic bacteria have a leg up on us.

And so if you could

thwart them by just getting them not to be able to launch these harmful attacks, there's real promise to that.

And then again, I want to talk about these good bacteria, like in agriculture and in humans and in industry, we use bacteria to make us all kinds of stuff and to do all, you know, they do bioremediation, they clean up oil spills, right?

If you could make quorum sensing better, right, you can imagine all kinds of medical and industrial and agricultural problems

you know, things, products.

So, okay.

So the microbiome is even newer as we discussed, right?

Because nobody knew they were there and then they didn't think they were doing anything.

And now we get that

Maybe they can do everything.

So, um, there's a lot of, let me call it this mounting evidence, right?

Remember these bacteria, and I'm not talking about quorum sensing molecules.

These bacteria are making molecules, all kinds of molecules that they are releasing into your body, right?

All kinds of, that's what bacteria do.

They're little machines that do biochemistry, right?

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