About
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.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED2009
- Speaker
- Bonnie Bassler
- Year
- 2009
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Biology, Medicine and health, Society and politics
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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