Bacteria make Mexican waves

By synchronising our clocks, we can coordinate our activities with people around the world. Now, scientists have engineered bacteria to synchronise their molecular timekeepers, creating the stunning fluorescent waves you see in this video. Hear more about synthetic biology on the Nature Podcast (http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast) or read the original research here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08753

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• Synthetic biology
• engineered bacteria
• fluorescent waves
• molecular
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[mecloptera]

Damn, that is cool.

[Roomx237]

Oh, aren't you super hardcore and cool for hating America.

[happinesson]

bacteria sometimes do good things!

[agapitoflores001]

You will not think that microorganisms have done it. It's so cool and amazing.

[jaredknightcom]

Awesome !

[mitsukai89]

@thompsonstudios01

Trololol.

I am white dude.

[thompsonstudios01]

@mitsukai89 thats just racist dude im white and im very smart and im not greedy and i do have a dad (teehee i made a funny) but really man watch who you say that to you might wake up dead

[Cuteyoshigirl]

@13THEMIS

Ahaha! Thank you for the response, because I know at least 85% of this is true. I went over to Tennessee and I have to tell you that it's still very segregated. Really sad.

[Cuteyoshigirl]

@FrumpyShakes I was about to say, Canada has Caucasian, UK has Caucasian, and Russia is 95% Caucasian.

And Europeans are actually the one's who started slavery, Christopher Columbus had a slave. They brought slavery over, usually poor people, Irish, Native Americans, and African people were the slaves. Also, it's really the Government who feeds the citizens with a bunch of garbage. Well, that's what I think. The blaming game between people is getting old, we have to change, simple as that.

[mitsukai89]

@Cuteyoshigirl

Who says i can't use english correctly? I hate people like you who make lousy assumptions. You are what is wrong with the world.

[Cuteyoshigirl]

@mitsukai89

You should learn that people are people, everybody is the same. Also, I wouldn't call someone else dumb, if you can't use English correctly. Doesn't make you look too good, you know?