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So many such that it's now just a home for
bacteria
who really like acidic, toxic conditions.
And speaking of bacteria, do you realize that each of us carries in our gut more
bacteria
than there are cells in the rest of our body?
I mean think of it, when Antonio Damasio asks about your self-image, do you think about the
bacteria?
Our gut is a wonderfully hospitable environment for those
bacteria.
It's really like an Easy Street for bacteria, with the occasional interruption of the unintended forced rush to the exit.
But otherwise, you are a wonderful environment for those bacteria, just as they are essential to your life.
At the bottom of the ocean,
bacteria
that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
The same technology that has produced the human insulin in
bacteria
can make viruses that will not only protect you against themselves, but induce immunity against other viruses.
There's diatoms made out of SiO2, and there are magnetotactic
bacteria
that make small, single-domain magnets used for navigation.
And so we use a nontoxic virus called M13 bacteriophage, whose job is to infect
bacteria.
Once you find that one out of a billion, you infect it into a bacteria, and make millions and billions of copies of that particular sequence.
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.
And the
bacteria
are feeding on the sugar nutrients in the liquid.
There's one last elephant in the room: the proteins themselves, which come from algae,
bacteria
and funguses and all over the tree of life.
This is going to be a glowing source first, which is like bioluminescent
bacteria.
And he said, "You know, the immune system is good at detecting invaders,
bacteria
coming from outside, but when it's your own tissue that you've grown, it's a whole different thing."
And my favorite example of that occurred beginning in 1976, when it was discovered that the
bacteria
causing Legionnaires disease had always been present in natural waters, but it was the precise temperature of the water in heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems that raised the right temperature for the maximum reproduction of Legionella bacillus.
But suppose you take some dirt and dig through it and then put it into these spectrometers, because there's
bacteria
all over the place; or you take water anywhere on Earth, because it's teaming with life, and you make the same analysis; the spectrum looks completely different.
It doesn't matter what kind of sediment you're using to grind up, whether it's
bacteria
or any other plants or animals.
Now, as we continue to tinker with the oceans, more and more reports are predicting that the kinds of seas that we're creating will be conducive to low-energy type of animals, like jellyfish and
bacteria.
You can put it into bacteria, you can put it into yeast, you can put it into milk.
And what you can do then is, the milk or the
bacteria
produce in much larger volumes and then from that, spin a yarn and then create a fabric or a rope.
The problem is that there's just too much nitrogen and phosphorus right now, too much phytoplankton falling to the bottom and decomposed by
bacteria
that use up the oxygen.
I don't know if you know this, but
bacteria
can actually exchange DNA.
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.
It's because they used to be separate free-living
bacteria
and they came together and became a superorganism.
Now this transition was not a one-time freak of nature that just happened with some
bacteria.
["Plankton" comes from the Greek "planktos" for wandering] My fellow plankton came in all sizes, from tiny algae and
bacteria
to animals longer than a blue whale.
This May, we're going to go from minus 1,000 meters in Zacaton, and if we're very lucky, DEPTHX will bring back the first robotically-discovered division of
bacteria.
They'd looked at dental calculus under a microscope, and what they had found was things like pollen and plant starches, and they'd found muscle cells from animal meats and
bacteria.
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