SciTech Daily  January 31, 2022 Researchers at UCLA elucidated how bacteria communicate about the existence of a surface using a messenger molecule called cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) signals which are analogous to, AM radio and FM radio which encodes signals by the number of oscillations in the wave over a given period. The signal acts like a knob. They identified three important factors that control the formation of biofilm: average levels of c-di-GMP, the frequency of oscillations in c-di-GMP levels, and the degree of cell movement on the surface where the biofilm is forming. According to the existing paradigm one input […]