This stuff is produced biologically.

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Nasa grade, of course. There's still NASA, yes?

And every time they do that, they get a tiny little packet of energy.

Pathogenic microorganisms with pathogenic microorganisms.

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There are microbes, you know go back to yeast.

But we've also discovered, when it comes to plants, in plants, as much as we understand and are starting to understand their genomes, it is the ecosystem around them, it is the microbes that live in their root systems, that have just as much impact on the character of those plants as the metabolic pathways of the plants themselves.

If you look at the microbes in one of the air handling units in this building, you'll see that they're all very similar to one another.

It could be microbial, viral, parasitic,

No. Microbiology. There's a on Earth.

What determines the types and distributions of microbes indoors?

And so, we've known about this for some period of time.

Finally, at the end of use, we could biodegrade it naturally along with your vegetable peelings.

And we found only 173 genes common to all 13 organisms.

In fact, we're more closely related to fungi than we are to any other kingdom.

So they actually switched to leaving some of the microbial community in the ileum.

I'm sure many people here have heard about probiotics.

We found trace amounts of bioresidue.

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.

These organisms we now bring into the lab, and you can see some of them growing on Petri plates, and get them to reproduce the precise biominerals that we find on the walls of these caves.

Interestingly enough, they also do this with uranium and chromium, and various other toxic metals.

Timothy Myles.

And so we just heard about the DNA sequencing.

A Microbiologist, an Investment Banker, the mother of a professional Athlete.

I get asked all of the time from people,

The ocean provides a friendly environment, and chemicals detected in the plume of water are also favorable to microbial life.

And the what, I think, is that we returned, over and over again, to the Pre Cambrian world, that first microbial age, and the microbes are still out there.

But I propose to you that the sequence of microbes that occur on rotting mushrooms are essential for the health of the forest.

Fine Structure Constant

like the Infinity Mushroom.

We have really no idea.

So we wanted to make this silk Mother Nature provides us with, available for use to everybody.

They hate we animals.

It's in there, waiting to be sequenced.

There are microbes out there that actually make gasoline, believe it or not.

There are thousands upon thousands of different kinds of microbes on us.

The microbes on your skin can help boost your immune system.

And so what I want to tell you about for a few minutes is, what people have learned using DNA sequencing techniques in particular, to study the microbial cloud that lives in and on us.

There's more mass in the microbes than the mass of our brain.

Michael Zasloff and Thomas Fishbein, to look at the microbes that colonized these ilea after they were transplanted into a recipient.

These are little wells.

Astro biologist David Grinspoon has suggested that

And here's the weapon, it seems, that it did so over the last 500 million years.

And I want to tell you a story about a personal project.