An example of an organism or two that happens to be quite immortal would be plant seeds or bacterial spores.

These are spores this is in their spores.

You don't have to heat them up as hot as you would something you do pressure canning because bacterial spores can't grow in the acid.

Bacterial spores are thought now by scientists to exist as individual cells that are alive, but in suspended animation for as long as 250 million years.

Bacterial pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by bacterial infection.

Now after sporulation, the spores repel.

But it's not bacterial pneumonia.

This is the bacterial Esperanto.

Bacterial STIs include syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhoea.

I actually chased the mycelium, when it stopped producing spores.

And the spores are germinating, and the mycelium forms and goes underground.

The fundamental forms of ferns followed, to bear spores that foreshadowed seeds.

This is now supposed to be my bacterial cell.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

Human cells comprise genes of eukaryotic, bacterial, archaean, and viral origin.

So, 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells on a human being.

And along comes pneumococcus or another bacteria, streptococcus and boom, they get a bacterial pneumonia.

From the dust, we pulled out bacterial cells, broke them open, and compared their gene sequences.

They either pop the bacterial membrane, they make the bacterium so it can't replicate its DNA.

The haploid phase begins when the mature organism releases many spores, which then germinate to become male or female gametophytes.

Remember you have these 10 times or more bacterial cells in you or on you, keeping you healthy.

And so far in the H5N1 cases in people, similarly bacterial infection has not been an issue at all.

But now moving from bacterial engineering to tissue engineering, let me show you what's happened in that period of time.

What you're looking at is a signature of bacterial communities in the outdoor air, and how they vary over time.

I know you think of yourself as human beings, but I think of you as 90 or 99 percent bacterial.

Margie Richard with a photo of her sister Naomi, who died at the age of 43 from a rare bacterial infection.

But the insects aren't stupid, and they would avoid the spores when they came close, and so I morphed the cultures into a non sporulating form.

Our researchers are interacting with this data by injecting bacterial code, which are computer programs, that allow these creatures to grow over time.

Well it turns out you have 100 times more bacterial genes playing a role in you or on you all of your life.

Bacterial cellulose is actually already being used for wound healing, and possibly in the future for biocompatible blood vessels, possibly even replacement bone tissue.

In silico has been used in white papers written to support the creation of bacterial genome programs by the Commission of the European Community.

You'll see broad bacterial groups, and if you look at the shape of this pink lobe, it tells you something about the relative abundance of each group.

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.

The Life Box you're gonna be getting a DVD of the TED conference you add soil, you add water, you have mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi as well as spores, like of the Agarikon mushroom.

And, after an initial cost of 60 bucks to buy the bacteria, which you'll never have to pay again, one cubic meter of bacterial sand would be about 11 dollars.

When you walked into those rooms, they smelled really bad, and our data suggests that it had something to do with leaving behind the airborne bacterial soup from people the day before.

And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.

Globalization has gone mad why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination.

It is a practice that may result in bacterial contamination at a level that is greater than was hitherto thought and the public see it as a prime example of bad neighbourliness and old fashioned technology.

And what we found so this is now supposed to be, again, my bacterial cell is that Vibrio fischeri has a protein that's the red box it's an enzyme that makes that little hormone molecule, the red triangle.

In 1967, a research group from Stanford Medical School and Caltech demonstrated the infectiousness of the genome of a bacterial virus called ΦΧ174, whose DNA had been synthesized with an enzyme using the intact viral DNA as a template, or blueprint.

And if we started looking into that genetic information, we'd see a number of usual suspects out there of course, a lot of human genetic information, but also bacterial and viral information, mostly from things that are completely harmless within your nose.

Dembski has argued that phylogenetically, the TTSS is found in a narrow range of bacteria which makes it seem to him to be a late innovation, whereas flagella are widespread throughout many bacterial groups, and he argues that it was an early innovation.

By means of another amendment, which was also accepted by our Commit tee on the Environment, I wanted to draw the Commission's attention to the bacterial pollution of coastal waters, which is a decisive factor for the quality of our bathing waters.

We do know that some bacterial species that have earthly origin are capable of almost unimaginable extremes of temperature and other harsh changes in environment, including hard radiation strong enough and maintained long enough to crack the Pyrex vessels around the growing population of bacteria.