Microbes
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Dennett: Artificially combining isolated microbes into communities never works
“A lot of the early work decades ago was you would get individual microbes and you would put them together and try to make your own communities. And that never works.”
Dennett: Identifying mine microbes is useless without linking to site chemistry
“The bugs that are there are not necessarily the same ones as the microbes that are doing things, and if you can't tie that to the chemistry and the mineralogy and the operating parameters, it doesn't actually turn into a lever that you can use.”
Dr. Giulia Enders: Stress hormones select for harmful gut microbes in studies
“And also some microbes, and that is maybe the most hygienic part of it all, they thrive on stress hormones. They are really able to deal with them very well, and others are not. You're kind of making an atmosphere for your gut. We're selecting gut microbes tha…”
Supercool Earth engineers microbes to express active ice-nucleating proteins
“What we're doing with our technology is we're taking natural proteins and encoding them into microbes that we engineered to make the proteins at high levels and maintain their activity”
Friedberg: Engineered microbes can make PET plastic biodegrade within a year
“There's a lot of efforts right now to develop microbes that can actually biodegrade these PET plastics. So there's so we're engineering these microbes that will produce enzymes. These are little bacteria that'll produce enzymes. Those enzymes can then be made …”
Lipman: Bioremediation relies mostly on wild, not engineered, microbes
“We already use microbes to help with things like oil spills, so there's already a field called bioremediation today which is, you know, fairly robust, but for the most part, these microbes we're using today to kind of break down contaminants are wild microbes …”