Bonnie Bassler and her team (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Bonnie Bassler and her team

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From left: Justin Silpe, Grace Johnson, Bonnie Bassler, Grace Beggs and their research team discovered that when two viruses have infiltrated the same cell, they use chemical signals to compete for who gets to spread further into their host.

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C. Todd Reichart, Office of Information of Technology, Princeton University

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