Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in the Brain

Re:Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in ... by pazimzadeh on Friday October 23, 2015 @06:28PM (#10441590)

There's obviously no blood-brain barrier for bacteria so I wonder how they protect themselves from being affected by surrounding metabolites or hijacked by competing organisms.

Here's the paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

I'd love a copy of the pdf - my school login's not working right now.

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Re:Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in ... by w1ntermute on Friday October 23, 2015 @06:38PM (#10441616)

Just append 'sci-hub.org' to the domain name of a journal article URL to get it for free: http://www.nature.com.sci-hub.org/nature/journal/vaop/ncurre...

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Re:Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in ... by pazimzadeh on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:15PM (#10442033)

Amazing, thanks.

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Re:Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in ... by jack9 on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:52PM (#10442239)

Bacteria have their own protection mechanisms. That being said, your question belies an assumption. Is it not brain-like if it's damaged/attacked? The blood-brain barrier is a structure the human brain has developed that provides a kind of protection. Things still get through and affect the human brain. So the idea of "protection" is a matter of vector, intensity, and the nature of the interaction being "protected". e.g. If a pain receptor is no longer registering due to an opiate, has the brain been disrupted?

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Re:Biologists Discover Bacteria Communicate Like Neurons in ... by ChuckMcM on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:52PM (#10441848)

You can always tweet #icanhazpdf :-)

[1] https://twitter.com/hashtag/icanhazpdf

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