A Virus Can Eavesdrop On Bacterial Communication
A researcher had an idea about viruses that was wild. And it turned out to be true.
Like many a cockamamie idea, this one was so crazy, it just might work.
But then again, the Bassler Microbiology Lab at Princeton University was built on crazy ideas that proved right, like that bacteria talk to each other, says Bonnie Bassler, director of the lab, chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Of course, they don't speak in so many words. Rather, they communicate with chemical signals, she says â a discovery that helped earn her a in 2002.
