Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Preserving the genome of these fungi in the old growth forest I think is absolutely critical for human health.

And that is the species of organism that is responsible for causing cholera.

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

This is extremely rare fungus.

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.

Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu ... a href http www.ted.com index.php speakers view id 229 target _blank Read more a .

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 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.

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

You get fungi, you get fish, you get plants, you get amphibia, you get reptiles, and then, of course, you get the dinosaurs.

Lichens arose as a co op. Fungi married algae ...

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.

Most of us don't have fungi or algae in our brains, so what is our brain going to do if we put that in?

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

The danger is that some germ like staph will be will mutate into something that's really virulent, very contagious, and will sweep through populations before we can do anything about it.

Whether the humans survive or don't survive, these things are going to be living on this planet or other planets.

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.

Moreover, certain viruses size and genetic repertoire is comparable with that of bacteria, archaea, or small eukaryotes. Indeed, the life of giant viruses is as complex as that of like sized microorganisms.

For most types of bacteria, the analysis can be completed in eight hours.43

The atmosphere has become so polluted with germs... that it can no longer be breathed.

A new global epidemic. People have been at war with germs ever since there have been people, and from time to time, the germs sure get the upper hand.

The bacterial genes express proteins that are toxic to corn boring insects, but that are harmless to birds, fish, and mammals, including humans. As the modified corn fends off insect pests, it also reduces the levels of the mold Fusarium, thereby reducing the levels of fumonisin.

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

I know you think of yourself as human beings, but I think of you as 90 or 99 percent bacterial.

They all have a species specific system they have a molecule that says me.

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.

Bacteria have been on the Earth for billions of years humans, couple hundred thousand.

Because farming takes place outdoors and in dirt, such contamination is a fact of life. Over the centuries, the main culprit in mass food poisoning often has been contamination of unprocessed crops by fungal toxins a risk that is exacerbated when insects attack food crops, opening wounds that allow fungi (molds) to get a foothold.