Scientists Discover Radio-Like Communication in Ancient Bacteria
Scitech Daily | December 09, 2024 | University of Cambridge
Cyanobacteria use an AM radio-like mechanism to regulate their genes, with the cell division cycle acting as a “carrier wave” and their circadian clock modulating the pulse strength to integrate signals from these two rhythms. This discovery explains how cells coordinate these oscillatory processes and may have applications in biotechnology and synthetic biology.
Actually, this is a pretty darn cool discovery that may have a lot of implications.
Cat videos.
9 Lives presents Morse the Cat?
Somehow, I always knew I was a carrier of modulating rhythms!
🎵 🎵 I Got Rhythm! 🎵 🎵
Ironically, these were Chinese scientists studying Sino-bacteria creating cyan waves.
“Some people want to fill the world with cilia love songs . . . ”
— Jimmy on the Ocarina
The brainpower of cyanobacteria on AM radio? I’m guessing NPR . . .
Ancient AM Radio? It’s probably still the same old one-tune-five-ads-repeat like it was in 1963.
“Jiggers, guys – we gotta split!”
What’s their frequency?
Gene 1: “How you doin’?”
Gene 2: “How you doin’?”
Gene 3: “Let’s get doin’!”
You know, that’s how El Rushbo got started.
“Keith Richards will outlive us!”