These are spores this is in their spores.

An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.

This is the bacterial Esperanto.

But it's not bacterial pneumonia.

It is effective against bacterial infections.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

But now moving from bacterial engineering to tissue engineering,

This is now supposed to be my bacterial cell.

First, a burial suit infused with mushroom spores, the Mushroom Death Suit.

It's covered with a crocheted netting that is embedded with mushroom spores.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

Then we monitored phthalate utilization and bacterial growth, and found that they shared an inverse correlation, so as bacterial populations increased, phthalate concentrations decreased.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

leaving behind the airborne bacterial soup from people the day before.

Uh, yeah, well, uh, I grew spores and fungi... in my parents' refrigerator this summer.

So, 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells on a human being.

So our team developed new techniques for actually growing, cloning entire bacterial chromosomes in yeast.

And along comes pneumococcus or another bacteria, streptococcus and boom, they get a bacterial pneumonia.

So, we pushed the piles down through the dune, and we create an initial bacterial surface.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

They either pop the bacterial membrane, they make the bacterium so it can't replicate its DNA.

From the dust, we pulled out bacterial cells, broke them open, and compared their gene sequences.

Hey I am sick, I think I have bacterial infection, give me some antibiotics, a responsible doctor says

Here, this cloaked, secret agent virus is slipping his DNA into the bacterial cell, but here's the kicker

And it's partly because I came to this field from a different background, chemist and a bacterial geneticist.

Remember you have these 10 times or more bacterial cells in you or on you, keeping you healthy.

And so far in the H5N1 cases in people, similarly bacterial infection has not been an issue at all.

It's an amazing step forward, but we had a problem because now we had the bacterial chromosomes growing in yeast.

I know you think of yourself as human beings, but I think of you as 90 or 99 percent bacterial.

What you're looking at is a signature of bacterial communities in the outdoor air, and how they vary over time.

I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.

Without biologist Alexander Fleming's moldy accident, caused by a neglected workstation, we wouldn't be able to fight off so many bacterial infections.

But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non sporulating form.

Our researchers are interacting with this data by injecting bacterial code, which are computer programs, that allow these creatures to grow over time.

Well it turns out you have 100 times more bacterial genes playing a role in you or on you all of your life.

We're here today to announce the first synthetic cell, a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemicals, assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell and transforming that cell into a new bacterial species.

Bacterial cellulose is actually already being used for wound healing, and possibly in the future for biocompatible blood vessels, possibly even replacement bone tissue.

It turns out, the DNA in the bacterial cell was actually methylated, and the methylation protects it from the restriction enzyme, from digesting the DNA.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores,

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.

The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa.