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Bonnie Bassler talks about how bacteria talk to each other. By understanding this chemical language, we can either jam or enhance the bacteria's signals depending on whether we like or don't like what that species does.

This might be the way around or current problems with unintentionally creating a "super-bug" with our current system of antibiotics. Fascinating:
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