Handle these capsules with care. Dr Noah's bacillus is highly contagious.

Sack of flesh without brains!

Both rodshaped, both acidfast... both with a slight shadow almost like an enclosing capsule.

The seeds then are mothered by this mycelium.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

This is the Vibrio fischeri molecule.

And so we see a mushroom here sporulating.

You look in his intestines. There are billions of bacteria.

I was able to morph the culture into a non sporulating form.

The good news, it's not cancer, it's not tuberculosis, it's not coccidioidomycosis or some obscure fungal infection.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

Consider the fungi including mushrooms, rusts, molds and many disease causing organisms.

No, dirty and filthy... and disgusting right?

A useless piece of crap!

To take an example close to home there are over 500 species of bacteria now known friendly bacteria living symbiotically in your mouth and throat probably necessary to your health for holding off pathogenic bacteria.

And, after an initial cost of 60 bucks to buy the bacteria, which you'll never have to pay again, one cubic meter of bacterial sand would be about 11 dollars.

What if I could stick this molecule, slap it onto a bacteria that was pathogenic to me, that had just invaded my lungs?

And when the molecule hits a certain amount that tells the bacteria how many neighbors there are, they recognize that molecule and all of the bacteria turn on light in synchrony.

Apples... Apples...

And along comes pneumococcus or another bacteria, streptococcus and boom, they get a bacterial pneumonia.

Our first task was a 5,000 letter code bacteriophage, a virus that attacks only E. coli.

So they're all using this molecule for interspecies communication.

Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down yes, they worship.

Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down yes, they worship.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith and he maketh it a god they fall down, yea, they worship.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith and he maketh it a god they fall down, yea, they worship.

This is a really odd one. This is Ferroplasma.

Here you see a typical cucumber leaf that turned actually from green to black because of a black fungus, sooty mold, which is covering it.

Now, the counterlungs aren't high tech, they're just simply flexible bags.

The left hand part of the molecule is identical in every single species of bacteria.

Watch me,I'll build a house twice as big right across from this one.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

I was a wimp.

You creepy crumb!

These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people.

I want to present to you a suite of six mycological solutions, using fungi, and these solutions are based on mycelium.

Lucy, where are my saddlebags?

And with my pocketful of miracles

And we know staph can do amazing things.

So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual.

Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best antibiotics come from fungi.

So then we started to look at other bacteria, and these are just a smattering of the molecules that we've discovered.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

It's a horrific story. Someone took a bottle of Tylenol, put poison in it, closed it up, put it back on the shelf.