David Suzuki

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

Canadian Scientist

Jeremy Wade

I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously fascinating and awful but maybe that's just because I'm a former biology teacher.

John Tyler Bonner

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

American Educator

Microorganisms are invisible to the naked eye, requiring a microscope to be seen.

Visibility

Microorganisms can cause or prevent diseases, showing their dual impact on health.

Health Connection

Microorganisms are commonly discussed in scientific and medical contexts due to their tiny size and significant roles.

Scientific Presence

In environmental contexts, microorganisms help decompose substances and cycle nutrients.

Ecosystem Roles

Microorganisms' impact on ecosystems is significant though the creatures themselves are tiny.

Ecological Importance

The presence and types of microorganisms can indicate an ecosystem's health and biodiversity.

Biodiversity Indicators

 Or more to the point, how do you know if a program will ever stop? There are other questions like this, too. One of them is Craig Venter's question. Turns out I think he's actually a computer scientist. He asked, how big is the minimal genome that will give me a functioning microorganism?

Paul Rothemund: The...

 And finally, there are cats. Don't worry, there probably aren't any cats living in your body and controlling your thoughts. I mean, probably. But there is a microorganism called Toxoplasma that needs both cats and rodents to complete its life cycle.

How parasites change...

 but to find out what it's uniquely well-suited to help us with. Here's an example. We started with a pest, a wasp that lives on many of our homes. Inside that wasp, we plucked out a little-known microorganism species with a unique

Meet the microscopic...

 And there are some of my little friends now. These are all microorganism types that are unknown to science. In fact, virtually everything we find in the subsurface is unknown in the databases that we have of surface life forms.

Life Beyond Earth, Part...

 life on Mars for ever looks like I never liked crystal have you hadn't I found something just think about what it would mean if you found a single-cell microorganism today marks the end of an

Last Season on MARS PIPE...

 this would definitely be a part of his toolkit. You're looking at our current best guess of how to scale biology. It's a bioreactor; a kind of microorganism brewery that contains yeasts

Fashion has a pollution...

 is what gives swiss cheese its characteristic holes. Some cheeses, brie and camembert, use another kind of microorganism, mold. So your kitchen functions as a sort of biotechnology lab

The beneficial bacteria...

 Mark This is a rotifer. It's a microorganism about a hair's width in size. They live everywhere on earth -- saltwater, freshwater, everywhere --

Tiny robots with giant...

 of cells, enzymes and genetic programming by combining robotics, protein design, both in microorganism and mammalian cells and data science.

What is deep tech? A...

 I'd like to introduce you to a tiny microorganism that you've probably never heard its name is Prochlorococcus,