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

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.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

Everything is covered in invisible ecosystems made of tiny lifeforms bacteria, viruses and fungi.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Every year, innumerable packaged food products worldwide are withheld or recalled from the market due to the presence of all natural contaminants like insect parts, toxic molds, bacteria, and viruses. Because farming takes place outdoors and in dirt, such contamination is a fact of life.

These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people.

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.

One of the interesting things about these particular guys is that they're in the actinomycete and streptomycete groups of the bacteria, which is where we get most of our antibiotics.

This is extremely rare fungus.

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

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

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.

This is a really odd one. This is Ferroplasma.

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

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.

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.

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 we know staph can do amazing things.

Sunlight was cut off, and fungi inherited the Earth.

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

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

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.

A dwarf. A dwarf and a toadstool.

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.

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.

A virus grabbed onto a bacterium and it slipped its DNA into it.

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.

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They got the organism to evolve to mildness, and they got no development of antibiotic resistance.

We couldn't have a germ theory of disease before we invented the microscope to see them.

What happens is that bacteria are able to count how many of me and how many of you.