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Dennis Bray is an active professor emeritus in both the Department of Physiology and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. He studies the behavior of microbes--how they "decide" where to swim, when to divide, and how best to manage the millions of chemical reactions taking place inside their membranes. For Bray, microbes are tiny, living computers, with genes and proteins serving the roles of microprocessors.

In this interview, I talked with Bray about his provocative new book, Wetware: A Living Computer Inside Every Cell.

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Direct Download: MTS36 (.mp3 | 27 megs | 37:29)

Carl Zimmer makes this comment

Mon Oct 12 22:23:46 2009

Thanks, Bob. I write a little about Bray's work in my book Microcosm. I hadn't spoken to him before; it was great to really plunge into the research.

Bob Terrace makes this comment

Mon Oct 12 20:18:55 2009

This is a fascinating podcast. Prof. Bray game an enormous amount of information. I wonder if he covered his whole book. This must have terrific for you, Carl, since he talked about E. coli.

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