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.
warming the pungent marinade of smells and cells in an incubator. After about four hours, the receptor types that recognized the odors produced light, courtesy of a reporting system inside the cells that uses bioluminescence from fireflies. The more active the receptor was when given ...
State insect: This speciesuses its string to paralyze and capture its prey, but it is formidable for humans as well. Asbiologist Ben Hutchins noted,“There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things, and their recommendation …was to just lie down and start screaming,...