Microbes
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Although, unless you have a fistulated cow with a big hole in its side, and you can put your hand into its rumen, it's hard to imagine that the delivery of
microbes
directly into the mouth and through the entire top of the digestive tract is the best delivery system, so you may have heard in people they are now doing fecal transplants, where rather than delivering a couple of probiotic
microbes
through the mouth, they are delivering a community of probiotics, a community of
microbes
from a healthy donor, through the other end.
Transplants of the feces, of the
microbes
from the feces, from a healthy donor has actually been shown to cure systemic C. dif infections in some people.
And we can now start to compare the community of
microbes
and their genes and see if there are differences.
Studies in model systems like mouse and other animals are also helping do this, but people are now using these technologies because they've gotten very cheap, to study the
microbes
in and on a variety of people.
They're
microbes.
What we need is a full field guide to the
microbes
that live in and on people, so that we can understand what they're doing to our lives.
You can send weather balloons up into the stratosphere, collect microbes, see what's up there.
Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.
The
microbes
in your gut can influence your weight and your moods.
The
microbes
on your skin can help boost your immune system.
The
microbes
in your mouth can freshen your breath, or not, and the key thing is that our personal ecosystems interact with ecosystems on everything we touch.
I told Tim, "If you could just see the microbes, it's kind of like being in Costa Rica.
We know that
microbes
are dispersed around by people and by air.
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.
And if you compare this to the
microbes
in a different air handling unit, you'll see that they're fundamentally different.
Another facet of how
microbes
get around is by people, and designers often cluster rooms together to facilitate interactions among people, or the sharing of ideas, like in labs and in offices.
Given that
microbes
travel around with people, you might expect to see rooms that are close together have really similar biomes.
Imagine designing with the kinds of
microbes
that we want in a plane or on a phone.
That's what
microbes
do; they chelate metals out of water.
There's a company here in San Francisco called MR3 that is embedding mimics of the
microbes'
molecules on filters to mine waste streams.
Today's photosynthesizers, their engines are descended from those ancient microbes, and they feed basically all of life on earth.
And I'm sure you're expecting me to say that my beloved
microbes
are doomed, but in fact they're not.
So Prochlorococcus has been my muse for the past 35 years, but there are legions of other
microbes
out there maintaining our planet for us.
It's the best-known of the gut
microbes.
There are about a hundred trillion
microbes
living inside you.
But interestingly, as our bodies have been adapting to life in modern society, we're losing some of our normal microbes, and at the same time, there are quite a few diseases related to the gut that are skyrocketing in developed nations all around the world.
And what we found in the DNA is that in the wild, these two species had totally different sets of
microbes.
But in the zoo, they had lost most of that diversity and had acquired some other set of
microbes.
So we went back to the DNA, and what the DNA told us is that every monkey in the zoo had become dominated by Bacteroides and Prevotella, the same
microbes
that we all have in our guts as modern humans.
So every point represents a whole zoo of
microbes.
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