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An international research team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of Tübingen has shown that multicellular bacteria possess intercellular communication structures similar to those found in plants, animals, and humans. The study, published in The EMBO Journal, demonstrates that calcium exchange plays a central role in bacterial communication, mirroring its function in human cells. These findings suggest that the regulatory mechanisms for such structures originated much earlier in evolutionary history than previously thought.

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