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. – TED

Anti-Quoroum Sensing drugs may be the next step in pathological prevention/antibiotics as current antibiotics are now being resisted by bacteria that survive via selection. If one cannot destroy bacteria via antibiotics, what if one can block bacterial communication between its own species and other species of bacteria? Bonnie Bassler explains how this all works in her research, and what these findings mean for our own bodily cells.

And, kind of related/unrelated: Are we as humans, organisms or living ecosystems?

Many different kinds of bacteria live on us. Just like how we live in our own ecosystem as humans, because we provide a means to live for these bacteria, by extension, are we also an ecosystem as well, but for microbiological life?