Bonnie Bassler
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first heard Jul 2026
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If everybody else dies, it's kind of what we got back to.
I can still – an individual can still divide and make the whole thing again.
So there's something fundamentally different, I think.
This is just my opinion.
There are the traits of multicellularity, the collective behaviors.
They do, in a biofilm, just like in your body,
cells that are identical, bacterial cells that have the identical genomes, they take on different fates, just like all the cells in your body have the identical genome, your kidney cells, your heart cells, your blood cells, they take on fates, they do different jobs.
That is clearly happening in a bacterial biofilm, that in one region, the bacteria are doing these jobs, in another region, they're doing those jobs.
We know that.
But nonetheless, if I scramble it up,
Every one of those cells, like they're sort of like the ultimate stem cells.
Every one of those cells could build that biofilm again, you know, by dividing, right?
And that's just different, right?
Like if I kill all your kidney cells, you are in a huge amount of trouble.
Yeah, and we'd call that a eukarya, right?
And again, we already know that happened.
Your mitochondria, right, or a chloroplast in a plant cell, right, those used to be free-living bacteria, right, that got somehow engulfed or whatever, and then they have so few genes left, but they do all these really important, you know, they're the little engines of our cells, right?
And so we have...
It's like an analog of what you're asking me, I think.
You know what I mean?
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