Bonnie Bassler: The secret, social lives of bacteria

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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[boylebongo]

she should have bowed. I felt like bowing for her. truly awesome presentation. my mind has expanded. ty for that. :D

[branboom]

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.

[captainclayman]

i wanna be a scientist now.

[captainclayman]

@MyturBenisdurty you should be thankful your teacher made you watch this. this shit is cool!

[LiquidFriction]

@branboom You'd have to know it was in your system before hand to give such an injection prior to symptoms...therefore useless in majority of cases that antibiotics would normally be used.

[captainclayman]

@elitept sounds pretty regular to me but then again i'm a fast talker too. just depends on how familiar you are with english.

[tvnatinto]

it won't be long before they find proof that bacteria actually use host defenses to help their signaling.  one of the other posters was right: we need to recognize them before they recognize us.

[xStiqs]

Great information but she really has to slow down her presentation.

[mickinorichan]

I just attended one of her talks about this at Princeton University. The talk was 50 minutes long, but it was incredible. Simply stunning...

[elitept]

God damn 'machine gun' speed speaking american speakers!

[MyturBenisdurty]

thumbs up if your here for school and your teacher made you watch this..

[firehouse969]

Amazing Talk!