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

that we had these microbiomes.

And for a long time, once it was recognized that there were bacteria, in and honest, scientists thought they were just passive riders.

You know, it's only recently, you know, with the advent of all the technologies and genomes and the understanding we have now about the natural world that we're learning about this mysterious microbiome, right?

It's a new field of study.

And so it's not, so there's a reason that for

as long as people have recognized bacteria as pathogens, they never associated them with the good stuff they do because bacteria are invisible.

No plant can grow without these bacteria in the soil.

I mean, nothing happens on this earth without bacteria, but since you can't see them, you only really think about them

when something terrible happens, right?

Correct.

So, right.

So a human cell is, you know, 500 or a thousand times bigger than a bacterial cell.

So yes.

So the idea is you have the current numbers and these change a lot.

you know, as we learn more and more, but the number is you have 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells in you or on you, 100 times more bacterial genes than human genes, but

You're right.

Human cells are much bigger.

So you have about five pounds of bacteria.

So when you say I can't lose that last five pounds, you can't.

You don't have to.

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