The resistant forms of tuberculosis. There are others.

We've all learned what the kind of panic that can occur when an old disease rears its head, like anthrax.

That's because if there are any harmful bacteria on the outside,

This, uh,

And the result of it is, we have diseases.

We can download new diagnostics.

It's like the new sperm donor.

Some are rapidly developing coliform lesions.

Say a new super bug has emerged.

Is that what you're gonna tell me? Yeah, well, I was.

You've got a lot of pressure favoring antibiotic resistance, so you get increased virulence leading to the evolution of increased antibiotic resistance.

Heat resistance.

Dean, how bad is it?

And, I mean, the world apparently is running out too.

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It's highly contagious. So it's said. Tularemic meningitis.

They attack like white blood cells fighting an infection.

I mean you might be an entrepreneur building an iOS app, and at least you could ask your friends.

Some bacteria figured out how to stay away from penicillin, and it went around sort of creating its little DNA information with other bacteria, and now we have a lot of bacteria that are resistant to penicillin, because bacteria communicate.

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And, there are other frequently dividing cells in your body

And I can cultivate that intuition in you by just asking you

liver, gall bladder, small intestine, and large intestine, also known as your colon.

So astronauts find that these bacteria that have been in orbit and came back to earth were somehow more sick making, what scientists call more virulent than they had been before they left.

Two parts thermophilic hydrolase.

There is a company called Sharklet Technologies that's now putting this on the surfaces in hospitals to keep bacteria from landing, which is better than dousing it with anti bacterials or harsh cleansers that many, many organisms are now becoming drug resistant.

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

Veena with his intestines.

Well basically that means that this protein is changing from the sensitive cell to the resistant cell.

It's harmful because it produces a toxin, and that toxin is released when the organism gets into our intestinal tract.

So, we set up a site in Mason County, Washington, and we've seen a dramatic decrease in the amount of coliforms.

We kill bacteria with traditional antibiotics and that selects for resistant mutants.

Of course, you've just heard and you already know that we're running out of antibiotics.

I first proposed, in the early 1990s, that mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

We are what we eat, could easily be described as, We are what our cells eat.

In 48 hours to 72 hours, these three mushroom species reduced the amount of coliform bacteria 10,000 times.

And I'm making an aptamer that will have this attached to it.

Our first task was a 5,000 letter code bacteriophage, a virus that attacks only E. coli.

Then I found out, post exposure, that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis and end up inside it as pure, potable drinking water.

What I would hope that I could further argue to you is that this is the invention of multicellularity.

We built 50 units to do that as a monitoring test for the durability and moisture and termites and so on.

We built 50 units to do that as a monitoring test for the durability and moisture and termites, so on.

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.

This vaccine is so small it can be grown in a common bacteria, E. coli.

Its value as a soil additive is unparalleled, and it can help plants resist harmful pathogens.