[HN Gopher] Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms...
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       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)
        
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       | 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
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         | Get "The computational beauty of nature", too. And its repo.
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         | 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-...
        
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