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Well this is awesome. Bacteria can coordinate their behavior by exchanging signals that reveal how many of them there are. But unexpectedly, VIRUSES can eavesdrop on those signals, to launch infections only when there are enough hosts around.https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/some-viruses-can-eavesdrop-their-hosts/578071/?utm_source=twb …
"[Viruses] are not even technically alive! They’re entirely different entities to bacteria, and yet they are intercepting and interpreting the same molecular messages. It’s like a rock eavesdropping on a bird."https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/some-viruses-can-eavesdrop-their-hosts/578071/ …
prediction: this tweet is going viral
Or bacterial. Meaning it can be controlled with antibiotics.
I’m pleased my flu might be able to hear me swearing at it.
So does that mean there is or isn't collusion? 
I KNEW It! The #viruses will Win!pic.twitter.com/Pl2US7U5xM
They sound diabolical.
I knew there was some kind of conspiracy going on in my body. I knew it!
Are the dormant phages...sleeper cells?
Good one! It sounds like it's exactly how they work, but with no headquarters to send the attack signal.
It’s not phrased in evolutionary terms. No things are eavesdropping anything. Passively receiving and reacting to emissions.
it might not be proper scientific, evolutionary terminology, but the tweet got people thinking and talking about science. Doesn't light hearted banter sometimes spark new ideas?
I just gave a Genetics question asking students to re-design lambda phage to go lytic at high cell density. Most of the students got it right too. Then I just saw this! Evolution wins every time.
Is this a metaphor for Facebook or Cambridge Analytica?
Nothing it turns out a virus can do surprises me!
So viruses are just raising us as hosts.
We make great pets
Viruses AND bacteria are just part of a system. They are not independent entities.
I don’t know if I agree? Like. Viruses and bacteria are very different things but of course all life is interconnected. Doesn’t make them the same.
I don't think they necessarily have to be the same in this description. Kind of like differentiating between organelles and eukaryotic cells.
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