Rosetta Stone of bacterial communication may have been found
source: http://aurmoth.blogspot.com/2009/07/rosetta-stone-bacterial-communication.html
"Quorum sensing is a cell-to-cell communication mechanism that enables bacteria to sense and respond to changes in the density of the bacteria in a given environment," said Anand Pai, graduate student in bioengineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering. "It regulates a wide variety of biological functions such as bioluminescence, virulence, nutrient foraging and cellular suicide."
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