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Science 26 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5850, pp. 578 - 579
DOI: 10.1126/science.1150704
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Deadly Priming

Roberto Kolter

Bacteria behave like cells of a multicellular organism, secreting a molecule that primes a subpopulation to commit suicide during stressful conditions.

The author is in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: rkolter{at}hms.harvard.edu

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