microbes

“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”

“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.”

“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.”