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#8 No Bacterium Glows Alone

January 20, 2017Leave a comment

Some things are best done with friends, but when you have no ears and eyes, it is hard to know when your friends are around to help you. Bacteria have solved this problem through a process called quorum sensing. Bacteria produce molecules called autoinducers (AIs), and they also monitor the number of these AIs in … Continue reading #8 No Bacterium Glows Alone

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