Dangerous Bacterial Films Communicate with Electric Pulses, Which Means We Could Zap Them to Interfere

Lighthouses and signal fires may have been the first social media. Without the ability to share language, a distant light meant "humans here." A new study from the University of California, San Diego, finds that bacteria can also send out a universal sign to attract the attention of their own, and other bacterial species. Learning more about how bacteria congregate and communicate could give us better ways of killing off the dangerous ones that cause infection. Like humans, bacteria are social creatures. While bacteria exist as individuals, some species prefer to live in communities called... more

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