That is safe, sterile drinking water.

And that pattern, the architecture of that pattern on its skin denticles keep bacteria from being able to land and adhere.

Joseph Lister was aepsis's, or sterility's, biggest advocate, to a very very skeptical bunch of surgeons.

And so we use a virus that's a non toxic virus called M13 bacteriophage that's job is to infect bacteria.

We thought, well what if we could sort of do behavior modifications, just make these bacteria so they can't talk, they can't count, and they don't know to launch virulence.

The germs that were present in the straw top bottles were described as mostly harmless.

It's been estimated that a single ton of soil fertile soil contains approximately four million species of bacteria, all unknown.

To understand how the bacteria affected the immune system, the researchers grew L. reuteri in liquid and then transferred small amounts of the liquid without bacteria to immature immune cells isolated from mice.

What you're looking at on this slide is just a person from my lab holding a flask of a liquid culture of a bacterium, a harmless beautiful bacterium that comes from the ocean, named Vibrio fischeri.

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

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.

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

We have things like E. coli that we can't fix, that we can't make kids better when they get sick.

Mice reared in a sterile environment so they lacked a gut microbiome and do not develop this kind of immune cell were given L. reuteri and the immune cells arose.

This is a really odd one. This is Ferroplasma.

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

With the patient insensitive to pain, and a sterile operating field all bets were off, the sky was the limit.

These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people.

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

And we know staph can do amazing things.

And even in the relatively sterile blood, around one to two percent of this information is dark matter can't be classified, can't be typed or matched with anything we've seen before.

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.

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.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

But also, by the way, the coffee is hot, the liquid is sterile you're not likely to get cholera that way.

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

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.

Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case diarrhea.

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.

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

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

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.

The worst possibility is that a very simple germ, like staph, for which we have one antibiotic that still works, mutates.

The mycelium absorbs the oil.

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

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

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

The clue to this came from another marine bacterium, and it's a bacterium called Vibrio fischeri.

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It's used by all different bacteria and it's the language of interspecies communication.

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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.

But again, these are done in these primordial conditions, really messy conditions, not sort of sterile laboratory conditions.