{
  "id": 4738871,
  "title": "Even ancient bacteria possessed intercellular communication structures like humans today, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/even-ancient-bacteria-possessed-intercellular-communication",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-31T23:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-ancient-bacteria-intercellular-communication-humans.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialized connecting structures. An international team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and involving the University of Tübingen has now discovered that the regulation of very similar structures was already present in multicellular bacteria, implying that it must have originated much…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}