The Secret Languages of Microbes http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

When bacteria get together, they?re capable of some pretty extraordinary things: they can form vast carpets of cells and cause deadly diseases. The reason, it turns out, is that they?re speaking a secret language ? a code only similar organisms can interpret to shift metabolic patterns with stunning ease and fluidity.



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