Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
Nov 17th, 2009 by admin
http://www.ted.com Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry — and our understanding of ourselves.
See this INTERVIEW with Bonnie Bassler, “the Bacteria Whisperer” on the TED Blog: http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci.php
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DrD0000M, I think …
DrD0000M, I think you have missed the point of the speech with your pointless comment. Yes, she is probably wrong when she stated 1 trillion. But estimates vary anywhere from 20-100 trillion, and there is no way to know precisely how many there are. Did you come across that in your vast google search??
Fantastic speech …
Fantastic speech fantastic scientist.
Other than that, …
Other than that, interesting speech.
What the hell?! The …
What the hell?! The human body has about 100 trillion cells not 1 trillion. Google it lady. The human brain alone is made of ~50-100 Billion neurons.
I would fvck all …
I would fvck all her bacteria up
This may well be …
This may well be the future of antibiotics…
Wow! I understood …
Wow! I understood everything she wanted to share! Great TED talk told with such sparkling enthousiasm
so THAT’S how …
so THAT’S how commensals recognise each other! great stuff.
she should have …
she should have bowed. I felt like bowing for her. truly awesome presentation. my mind has expanded. ty for that.
Shes a perfect …
Shes a perfect speaker! And I’ve never thought that anyone could speak about germs with such enthusiasm. ;p
wow fabulous …
wow fabulous speaker and great discoverys thankyou for this interesting video …i guess though like anything this could be used against as a biological weapon ,,or if the world powers decided to depopulate as intercellular comunication could be blocked in humans etc etc …lets hope its used for good
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unfathomable …
unfathomable complexity
That is so cool.
That is so cool.
Make the bacteria …
Make the bacteria attack early by injecting a higher does of that signal chem so they get curb stomped by your immune system.
Now!
Wheres my Nobel.
The only reason a …
The only reason a bacteria can make us sick is by making toxins… without the toxins our immune systems will kill them.
We could in time make microbial hunter killer that attack the bacteria strains that causes us illness based on the specific transmitters they produce.
There isn’t much of …
There isn’t much of a competing answer other then quantum interactions to explain how microbes can process up to 100,000,000 bit’s per second with a nanobrain composed of proteins and a bundle of around 10,000 microtubules.
clearly microbes are the most intelligent organisms on earth, at least on a per gram weight basis.
Also we are moving closer to making neuralnets out of bacteria.
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steeleman23, I’m …
steeleman23, I’m referring to the possibility of longitudinal studies. As opposed to leaving ourselves open to serious repercussions down the road.
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there horizontal …
there horizontal evolution lets them evolve way faster then us… for us evolution is survival of the fittest and for them it’s a mass produced horizontal evolution via plasmids.
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