Slime Volley

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

And he was amazed that they actually got DNA from the slime.

So this is possibly going to be my legacy Simon's shark slime.

So I scraped the slime off and I sent it off to Aberdeen.

So we thought, okay, we're going to try to get out and get some slime.

We genetically engineer bacteria.

But I kept emailing, saying, Have you had a chance to look at my slime yet?

This is from the coast of Brittany, which is being enveloped in this green, algal slime.

How does nature repel bacteria?

So we have this field of science that's all about slime, and color changes. Check this out.

What was actually interesting to us was not that the bacteria made light, but when the bacteria made light.

Bacteria are incredibly multi drug resistant right now, and that's because all of the antibiotics that we use kill bacteria.

We heard that bacteria eat oil?

Without water, the bacteria won't survive.

Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria talk

To take an example close to home there are over 500 species of bacteria now known friendly bacteria living symbiotically in your mouth and throat probably necessary to your health for holding off pathogenic bacteria.

Is your water bottle harbouring dangerous bacteria?

And it's killing bacteria. It's eating them.

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Bacteria always control pathogenicity with quorum sensing.

The smallest bacteria is about 200 nanometers.

So we went back to molecular biology and started studying different bacteria, and what we've found now is that in fact, bacteria are multilingual.

Mud and minerals become substrate there are bacteria.

These vibrios, these bacteria, can actually infect people.

So, the bacteria grows hair on the crab.

And in about half an hour, we got five samples, five individual sharks, were sampled using Simon's shark slime sampling system.

Already what were thought to be bacteria for generations have been found to compose, instead, two great domains of microorganisms true bacteria and one celled organisms the archaea, which are closer than other bacteria to the eukaryota, the group that we belong to.

We was so, so stupid. The most stupid bacteria.

Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth.

The coral reefs of the north coast of Jamaica have a few percent live coral cover and a lot of seaweed and slime.

So replacing the bacteria DNA with virus DNA turns the bacteria into a factory for making viruses that is, until it's so filled with viruses that it bursts.

You look in his intestines. There are billions of bacteria.

The main characters in the story are bacteria and viruses.

But that's not the only way that viruses infect bacteria.

Those fungi and bacteria are as highly evolved as humans.

But that number of bacteria species can be found in one gram of soil, just a little handful of soil, in the 10 billion bacteria that would be there.

And so, the question for my lab is whether you want to think about all the good things that bacteria do, or all the bad things that bacteria do.

The real bacteria and viruses are so small we can't see them without a microscope, and you guys might know bacteria and viruses because they both make us sick.

So when I saw the black slime on the bow of the boat, I thought, If you take what you're given in this world ...

And they amplified it and they tested it and they found, yes, this was actually basking shark DNA, which was got from the slime.

And these are mineral deposits that are also made by bacteria.

We think bacteria made the rules for how multicellular organization works.

And then when myself and Emmett got back to Malin Head, to the pier, I noticed some black slime on the front of the boat.