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Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria
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Publication time: 2009-04-08 11:55:10
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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 TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
magilojohFavorites  2010-03-11 07:53:01
Professor Bassler is just brilliant!! She is also so humble; At the end she gave so much credit to her team, but she has initiated so much of these studies and her drive is what has kept this going!! Go Bonnie!!
timg455Favorites  2010-02-27 03:31:14
That does matter because if it is a much higher number how does that then compare to how much bacteria. It's kind of important to get the numbers right if your comparing them.
DrD0000MFavorites  2010-02-16 12:40:46
I didn't have to Google it to know it. It's fairly basic knowledge of biology. I would think a biologist, who is bothering to write a speech about biology, would know something so basic. The only people who have just 1 trillion cells are fetuses. This is like an astronomer saying there's a couple of "million" stars in the universe. And yes, I got the content of the speech, it's interesting, but still that's distracting.
Scones67Favorites  2010-02-10 13:41:22
MILF
wildxberriesFavorites  2010-01-28 23:35:30
@fto2006 Yeah, that's the point. No response produced = bacteria don't sense neighbors and become virulent!