{"id":117212,"date":"2020-12-16T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-unfortunately-bacteria-scream-when-they-die"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:23:27","slug":"scientists-unfortunately-bacteria-scream-when-they-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-unfortunately-bacteria-scream-when-they-die","title":{"rendered":"Scientists: Unfortunately, Bacteria Scream When They Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unfortunately-bacteria-scream-when-they-die.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Dead Cells<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an intriguingly microscopic example of pro-social behavior \u2014 an adaptation that doesn\u2019t help an individual survive, but does let it use its death to help others, therefore making the entire swarm more likely to survive and reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDead cells are helping the community survive,\u201d University of Texas at Austin professor of molecular biosciences told <em>Live Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead Cells It\u2019s an intriguingly microscopic example of pro-social behavior \u2014 an adaptation that doesn\u2019t help an individual survive, but does let it use its death to help others, therefore making the entire swarm more likely to survive and reproduce. \u201cDead cells are helping the community survive,\u201d University of Texas at Austin professor of molecular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}