http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/ The TED Blog shares interesting news about TED, TEDTalks video, the TED Prize and more. Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-36027 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:29:40 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-36027 [...] http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/ [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-6783 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:30:28 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-6783 Amazing. Truly interesting and there must be much more of animal behaviour that can be seen in bacterial sociology other than communication. I wonder whether domain ownership, enmity, friendship or even mere transactive exchange would be observed amongst bacteria.

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-4852 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:49:17 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-4852 [...] Also here’s an interview transcript:  http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/ [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-4746 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:09:56 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-4746 [...] Also here’s an interview transcript:  http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/ [...]

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-3655 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:09:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-3655 You know it’s amazing that this took so long to come to. As a computer programmer since I was a child, I’ve played many many many programming based games, where such a strategy (albeit on a simpler level,) is used for many simpler programs to communicate. In fact one of those games was a cellular automata type game. It seems idea isn’t really new in concept, but proving it, and defining it sure has been. Bonnie you and your team, are my heroes.
One thing not asked in the interview, but wouldn’t it be possible to generate a bacteria with this signalling locked on? Wouldn’t that in fact, be a more effective system that real bacteria wouldn’t be able to avoid? That way the bacteria that you were targetting would always trigger as virulent? Thus causing the bacteria to become virulent before they had numbers? Making them easy targets for the immune system?

]]> http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/08/the_secret_soci/comment-page-1/#comment-1426 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog-staging.ted.com/2009/04/the_secret_soci/#comment-1426 I would like to know the effect of broad spectrum antibiotic approach on the good bacteria in the body. The bacteria which are involved in the growth and many other important functions in the body. All these functions are also going to get affected right??
so what should be the approach regarding that??
hope to here soon regarding this question.

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