Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Very, very fascinating.
Very fascinating.
And certainly, certainly fascinating.
And many topics, you know, and whether or not a medicine is going to work on you or not, you know, like this idea of personalized medicine, that the microbiome is going to really affect what it means to get personalized medicine going forward.
Those are intensively studied topics.
but hard to answer.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was kind of a, that's a, was a wonderful postdoc in the lab that, that perhaps that he did, he thought it's a fact in these particular bacteria that we found when they make these beautiful biofilm structures that
He found that quorum sensing regionally, like in a region in, you know, you have to think of this as like a big community, right, adhered to a surface, you know, like a blob, right, regionally controls quorum.
the death of certain cells, like the idea being almost altruism, which is that I spill out all my gut, you know, this community is getting kind of old.
There's not enough food around.
That's when this happens.
You know, of course, high cell disease, lots of cells there.
And so then maybe, maybe some of these elders
Because it is the oldest part of the community.
They all die, and it's quorum sensing controlled.
And maybe what they do is they spill out all their nutrients.
It's kind of like cannibalism.
It's a little bit like that.
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