TED Radio Hour

The shocking power of tiny things

My goal is not to find technology to kill the new microscopic life around us. My goal is to find new technology from this life that will help save us. The diversity of life in our homes is more than a list of 100,000 new species. These 100,000 new sources of solutions to human problems.

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Antibiotic Apocalypse

searching for answers to an alarming threat to humanity's existence as we know it: antibiotic resistance in bacteria

TED

The Tiny Organisms Transforming Farming | Karsten Temme | TED

Well microbes in response shut down that nitrogen-fixing function, putting those genes into hibernation. What if we could wake them back up?