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

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

There are microbes, you know go back to yeast.

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So scientists also tend to get famous when they're much older.

So they hosted and funded this meeting.

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

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And that's Richard Feynman.

I'd like to thank everybody, all the scientists, the philosophers, the architects, the inventors, the biologists, the botanists, the artists ... everyone that blew my mind this week.

Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture, a concept that was developed by an entomologist,

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What does the biologist say?

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Neurobiologist.

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This stuff is produced biologically.

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

Again and again in nature, from the very most ancient bacteria to more recent species, they go through a juvenile phase of hostile competition to establish themselves,

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

Over 40 years ago, I was cloning stem cells and one of the first experiments just so blew my mind

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Pathogenic microorganisms with pathogenic microorganisms.

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

What crystals are possible, we can understand through the mathematics of symmetry.

But then, in the '90s, something began to unravel.

Although varying among disciplines say, astrophysics, molecular genetics, the immunology, the microbiology, the public health, to the new area of the human body as a symbiont, to public health, environmental science.

And we're letting industry run the show.

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It's 115 miles of mapped passage, it's pristine, it has no natural opening and it's a gigantic biological, geo microbiological laboratory.

I'm a paleontologist who collects fossils.

It covers everything from the fundamentals of microbiology to the latest news.

It reminds me of my college days.

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That is, I'm not a clinician,

It could be microbial, viral, parasitic,

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I mean, if a bunch of experts come to me and say,

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We don't consume 200 year old cows or chickens.

This is our chief geneticist, Dr. Hideo Hicovaga.

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.