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To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi

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Mar 27, 201900:11:31Science & Medicine

Bacteria "talk" to each other, sending chemical information to coordinate attacks. What if we could listen to what they were saying? Nanophysicist Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi invented a tool to spy on bacterial chatter...