[HN Gopher] Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms... ___________________________________________________________________ Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to 'crawl' Author : isomorph Score : 22 points Date : 2022-10-10 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (penntoday.upenn.edu) (TXT) w3m dump (penntoday.upenn.edu) | mustafabisic1 wrote: | My childhood explained. | | Trying to do exactly this for my kids: | | "Because these assemblages are found in saliva, targeting them | early on could be a therapeutic strategy to prevent childhood | tooth decay, says Koo. "If you block this binding or disrupt the | assemblage before it arrives on the tooth and causes damage, that | could be a preventive strategy."" | dev_throw wrote: | Sounds like advanced symbiosis. I wonder if the movement is | across a gradient or whether the super organism has a control | unit that makes decisions. Are we a result of similar | microorganisms? | anthk wrote: | Funghi can assemble themselves into a super-organism. | | Also, for fun: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20080-3 | | Get "The computational beauty of nature", too. And its repo. | | https://github.com/gwf/CBofN | actually_a_dog wrote: | Literally the Cavity Creeps from the old Crest commercials: | https://theretronetwork.com/retro-commercials-crest-team-vs-... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-10 23:00 UTC)