Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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That's where most bacteria in the human body are.
They're in the gut, right?
And so if you
meaning humans, have evolved with these bacterial microbiome for all of these hundreds of thousands of years, maybe
your human cells want to be controlling what those bacteria do, right?
And so by making autoinducer, you know, these quormsensing mimics, maybe your human gut cells drive these bacteria to carry out particular collective behaviors that presumably are useful to the humans.
So on the one hand, we know now that eukaryotes make quormsensing mimics, right, that bacteria respond to.
So that's the eukaryotes.
And so we're super excited about
cross-domain communication.
And then on the other side of these domains are the viruses.
And so
Just like we are bombarded by viruses, bacteria are bombarded by viruses as well.
So viruses infect bacteria.
We call them phages.
So bacteria have immune systems that protect them from phages.
And so what happens when a virus, a phage, gets in a bacterial cell,
The virus, okay, I'll call it a phage.
The phage, that's a bacterial virus, right?
The phage can do one of two things.
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