So, how does a single-cell organism lacking the benefit of billions of neurons ... “There’s a fallacy in assuming that because something is small, it’s simple. Bacteria are using statistical mechanics ...

As the biofilm expands and consumes nutrients, a “wave” of nutrient depletion moves across cells within the bacterial community ... the capability to test how simple cell systems can organize ...

Researchers have developed a live-cell fluorescent labeling that makes bacterial cell-to-cell communication ... analogues represent an operationally simple tool for the imaging of QS receptors ...