{"id":1577,"date":"2006-10-02T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2006\/10\/biologists-listening-guide-to-bacteria.html"},"modified":"2006-10-02T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T13:46:00","slug":"biologists-listening-guide-to-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"A Biologist&#8217;s Listening Guide to Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6061852\">NPR : A Biologist&#8217;s Listening Guide to Bacteria<\/a>: &#8220;&#8216;So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you&#8217;re alone and turn on genes that are good when you are a community. And for reasons we don&#8217;t understand, the gene that lets them make this beautiful blue light is one of the genes they turn on,&#8217; Bassler says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too&#8230;. NPR : A Biologist&#8217;s Listening Guide to Bacteria: &#8220;&#8216;So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you&#8217;re alone and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}