Tedspresso - The Deep
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This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd
Length - 13:08
Key takeaways -
There is a vast living microbial biosphere covering the earth's oceans
Thousands of species of microbes have been found and there are trillions more to be discovered
Once they are brought to the surface, it is impossible to grow them in lab conditions
The microbes live on tiny energy gradients and replicate and grow over thousands and hundreds of thousands of years
We could potentially harness the power of these microbes and use them in a range of applications , e.g using them to increase the shelf life of biomedical compounds and mimicking their characteristics in cancer cells to slow cell division
Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgB2TaYhio
Quotes - “what seems like a day to them might be a thousand years for us” - Karen Lloyd
