Posts Tagged ‘chemotherapy’

Don't worry, it's not like Night of the Replicating Bacteria By Means of Nucleic Fax Transmission or anything - at least not yet.  Scientists have discovered that certain bacteria are capable of creating nanowires to communicate with each other in little nano-networks.  People have suggested that they look similar to neural networks, and we've discovered that most, if not all bacteria, develop these wires.From the abstract of the publication: Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 produced electrically conductive pilus-like appendages called bacterial nanowires in direct response to electron-acceptor ... Read More»