Bonnie Bassler

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

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Right?

So, I think that if you're me, you believe that being a human, or for me, a eukaryote, means a community.

And I mean, I think of myself as this marvelous, I don't mean that in an egomaniacal way, I mean like this marvelous collection.

of cells, right?

And just like you, I don't notice my bacterial cells either, right?

But my human cells, and I can't be human without them, right?

You know, unless I guess I lived in a bubble, you know what I mean?

So, you can't be without them.

So, you need them, you know, to keep you alive, to keep you healthy, to protect you.

I mean, don't get me wrong, you could be, you are born, you could be born, you could kind of live, but

Not for very long without them, right?

So you do need them.

But my human genome is my human genome, right?

And I do have a brain, right?

And they don't.

Right?

But you need them, right?

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

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