Episode Transcript
Hey, it's Flora Lichtman. You're listening to Science Friday. On today's show, ooming in on the sophisticated secret societies living around and within us. They've been here for billions of years. They do evolution on a much faster scale. So they've had time to occupy every niche on the planet and to optimize. As humans, I think it's tempting to...
Episode Description
Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own complex societies playing out right under, and in, our noses?
Microbiologist Bonnie Bassler has been studying these questions for more than 30 years. She talks with Host Flora Lichtman about the wild world of bacterial communication, and how understanding microbes could help us understand ourselves.
Guest: Dr. Bonnie Bassler, microbiologist at Princeton University
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