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

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

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

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

You're just a fungus!

Those organisms that paired with fungi were rewarded, because fungi do not need light.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

So, fungi and mycelium sequester carbon dioxide in the form of calcium oxalates.

This is extremely rare fungus.

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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.

60,000 species are known to science, but more than 1.5 million have been estimated to exist.

The mushrooms then are harvested, but very importantly, the mycelium has converted the cellulose into fungal sugars.

Already what were thought to be bacteria for generations have been found to compose, instead, two great domains of microorganisms true bacteria and one celled organisms the archaea, which are closer than other bacteria to the eukaryota, the group that we belong to.

Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth.

The Armillaria is actually a predatory fungus, killing certain species of trees in the forest.

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

So, I went to the EPA homepage, and they were recommending studies with metarhizium species of a group of fungi that kill carpenter ants, as well as termites.

I'm essentially using a kombucha recipe, which is a symbiotic mix of bacteria, yeasts and other micro organisms, which spin cellulose in a fermentation process.

And so we started to think if this really is about communication in bacteria, and it's about counting your neighbors, it's not enough to be able to only talk within your species.

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

These are hacks, and if we looked at the general shape of the approaches to hacking life there are, current consensus, six kingdoms. Six different broad approaches the plants, the animals, the fungi, the protests the little things the bacteria and the Archaea bacteria. The Archaeas.

This is a really odd one. This is Ferroplasma.

She suspected the difference had to do with the mice's gut microbiomes the community of bacteria, viruses and fungi that normally live within the gastrointestinal tract.

The enzymes remanufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates fungal sugars.

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.

These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people.

And the species in the soil go to work basically chewing through those roots, decomposing them the earthworms, the fungi, the bacteria and the result is new soil.

At the end of 1987, the scope of the biological weapons work was further expanded and research into additional bacterial agents, such as Clostridium perfringens and fungal toxins, such as trichothecene mycotoxins, was carried out.

And we know staph can do amazing things.

I recall one patient who was at that point no more than a skeleton encased in shrinking skin, unable to speak, his mouth crusted with candida that was resistant to the usual medications.

Fungi multiplied. Orchids emerged, genitalia shaped to lure insects ...

Irrigation encourages the growth of stem rust fungi like UG 99

I see bacteria swimming, fighting, existing, that's real.

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

Dr Noah's bacillus? Now, Jimmy, even you wouldn't release germ warfare.

There's one last elephant in the room, the proteins themselves, which come from algae and bacteria and fungi, and all over the tree of life.

In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom.

Most of you may not know that fungi were the first organisms to come to land.

And then this back down on the ground and you can see that the fungus is actually invading this tree.

And the focus when I'm talking about the diarrheal organisms, as well as the focus when I'm talking about any organisms that cause acute infectious disease, is to think about the problem from a germ's point of view, germ's eye view.

The mycelium absorbs the oil.

The real bacteria and viruses are so small we can't see them without a microscope, and you guys might know bacteria and viruses because they both make us sick.

And so, as I was thinking about this, I focused on this organism, which is the El Tor biotype of the organism called Vibrio cholerae.

And what you're looking at with this namibiensis is the biggest bacteria we've ever seen.