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When my own daughter was born a couple of years ago by emergency C-section, we took matters into our own hands and made sure she was coated with those vaginal microbes that she would have gotten naturally.

So how we're born has a tremendous effect on what microbes we have initially, but where do we go after that?

So I mentioned that microbes have all these important functions, and they've also now, just over the past few years, been connected to a whole range of different diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, heart disease, colon cancer, and even obesity.

Obesity has a really large effect, as it turns out, and today, we can tell whether you're lean or obese with 90 percent accuracy by looking at the microbes in your gut.

Now, although that might sound impressive, in some ways it's a little bit problematic as a medical test, because you can probably tell which of these people is obese without knowing anything about their gut microbes, but it turns out that even if we sequence their complete genomes and had all their human DNA, we could only predict which one was obese with about 60 percent accuracy.

What it means that the three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you may be more important for some health conditions than every single gene in your genome.

So in mice, microbes have been linked to all kinds of additional conditions, including things like multiple sclerosis, depression, autism, and again, obesity.

Well, one thing we can do is we can raise some mice without any microbes of their own in a germ-free bubble.

Then we can add in some microbes that we think are important, and see what happens.

When we take the microbes from an obese mouse and transplant them into a genetically normal mouse that's been raised in a bubble with no microbes of its own, it becomes fatter than if it got them from a regular mouse.

Sometimes what's going on is that the microbes are helping them digest food more efficiently from the same diet, so they're taking more energy from their food, but other times, the microbes are actually affecting their behavior.

The implication is that microbes can affect mammalian behavior.

So you might be wondering whether we can also do this sort of thing across species, and it turns out that if you take microbes from an obese person and transplant them into mice you've raised germ-free, those mice will also become fatter than if they received the microbes from a lean person, but we can design a microbial community that we inoculate them with that prevents them from gaining this weight.

What happens is, they send in their samples, we sequence the DNA of their microbes and then release the results back to them.

Well, it turns out that microbes are not just important for finding out where we are in terms of our health, but they can actually cure disease.

Would the good microbes do battle with the bad microbes and help to restore their health?

We're just finding out that microbes have implications for all these different kinds of diseases, ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to obesity, and perhaps even autism and depression.

Not missiles, but microbes.

I am going to try to convince you, in the 15 minutes I have, that microbes have a lot to say about questions such as, "Are we alone?"

For anybody who has gone to a spa knows how much microbes like that, right?

But they can adapt only so far, and then when all the water is gone from the surface, microbes have only one solution left: They go underground.

And those microbes, the rocks you see in that slide here, well, they are actually living inside rocks and they are using the protection of the translucence of the rocks to get the good part of the U.V. and discard the part that could actually damage their DNA.

Now, finally, if somebody tells you that looking for alien microbes is not cool because you cannot have a philosophical conversation with them, let me show you why and how you can tell them they're wrong.

So yeah, microbes are talking and we are listening, and they are taking us, one planet at a time and one moon at a time, towards their big brothers out there.

So the implications for science are enormous, because here you could find, for example, microbes that could be useful to resolve diseases in medicine, or you could find even a new kind of material with unknown properties.

In the last 30 years, we've discovered microbes living in all sorts of extreme environments.

Some scientists estimate that the mass of microbes living deep underground equals the mass of all the life at Earth's surface.

These subterranean microbes don't need oceans or sunshine.

Microbes may thrive on Jupiter's moon Europa, where liquid water ocean probably lies beneath the icy crust.

Could these geysers be raining microbes?

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