Leprosy! Scream in hell forever, you monster!

Nye So this is what Bacillus subtilis looks like.

Bobo called me on the phone (Laughter) from Yale Medical School, and Bobo said, Shawn, I have leprosy.

Bacillus pasteurii, a micro organism that is readily available in wetlands and marshes, and does precisely that.

Yeah, so for the control, we were thinking like that would be the normal growth for Bacillus.

I've never, uh, I've never, that I know of, tried Bacillus subtilis, but these these probably taste better.

like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.

So somehow you're thinking that they will get... they'll reproduce better, they'll get more fit, be stronger, more excited sub Bacillus subtilis.

What happens is, you pour Bacillus pasteurii onto a pile of sand, and it starts filling up the voids in between the grains.

We see the result, the traces, if you like, of the Bacillus pasteurii being harnessed to sculpt the desert into these habitable environments.

We are planning to send the QST 713 strain of bacillus subtilis into space to see if it will become more virulent to fungi,

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.