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

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.

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.

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.

And the bacteria are feeding on the sugar nutrients in the liquid.

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

OK. So, the patient was treated then with a third generation cephalosporin antibiotic and doxycycline, and on day three, it didn't help she had progressed to acute failure.

The remnants of biological munitions which Iraq declared had been filled with Bacillus anthracis, botulinum toxin and aflatoxin were provided to the inspectors for verification.

And notice that as the mycelium grows, it conquers territory and then it begins the net.

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

The pH of 11, and yet it had chemosynthetic bacteria living in it and at this extreme environment.

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

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.

Looks like the hard road finally got to Mr. Lucas War Hero.

Baccarat.

Tough!

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.

What bad luck!

I'm unlucky.

Sucker.

CalamityJoe.

She'll soon leave to have her baby.

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.

And so we see a mushroom here sporulating.

Diagonal Disaster

Oh, that's too bad.

Take thy fortune.

Oh, my aching back!

The bastards.

Things are not that easy.

Too bad.

It'll be bad luck.

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.

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.

Researchers speculate that the worms may be feeding on chemosynthetic bacteria (bacteria whose life is based on chemical processes rather than photosynthesis) that grow on the compressed gas in the hydrates or otherwise living symbiotically with them.

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.

Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological)

CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) AND

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.

So, the bacteria grows hair on the crab.

And once you get increased antibiotic resistance, the antibiotics aren't knocking out the harmful strains anymore.

He is shit out of luck.