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Microbiology

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of microbiology.

Video playlists about Microbiology

The future of medicine

12 talks • 2h 40m

Take this tour of medicine's future with some of the trailblazing doctors charting its course. Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a 3D printer, almost anything is imaginable ...

Weird facts about the human body

13 talks • 3h 13m

The workings of the human body? An absolute marvel. And yet, kind of bizarre. The facts in these talks point to both conclusions.

What’s the big deal about Mars?

5 talks • 1h 23m

Learn all the hubbub going on with the big Red Planet in these insightful and utterly fascinating talks.

Talks about Microbiology

James Green

3 moons and a planet that could have alien life

Posted Aug 2016

Lisa Dyson

A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

Posted Jul 2016

Shubhendu Sharma

How to grow a forest in your backyard

Posted Jul 2016

Paula Hammond

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer

Posted Apr 2016

Lisa Nip

How humans could evolve to survive in space

Posted Mar 2016

Jill Farrant

How we can make crops survive without water

Posted Jan 2016

Kristen Marhaver

How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs

Posted Dec 2015

Neri Oxman

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Posted Oct 2015

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill

Posted Oct 2015

Nathalie Cabrol

How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life

Posted Apr 2015

Jaap de Roode

How butterflies self-medicate

Posted Feb 2015

Heather Barnett

What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

Posted Jul 2014

Ed Yong

Zombie roaches and other parasite tales

Posted Mar 2014

Mark Kendall

Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Posted Jan 2014

Fabian Oefner

Psychedelic science

Posted Oct 2013

Two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria

Posted Jul 2013

See all 29 talks on Microbiology

Exclusive articles about Microbiology

Curiouser and curiouser: A cup of tea with Oliver Sacks

A memorable conversation with Oliver Sacks reveals what might have been his greatest attribute: undying curiosity. I remember knocking at his door, nervously clutching an inscri...

It’s all around us: Three scientists on how the microbiome shapes our world

Plus: Why you shouldn’t give probiotics to your dog. You are never really alone. On your skin, in your nose, in every inch of your personal space, you are accompanied by trillio...

Things we should and shouldn’t do (one of them definitely nowhere near food)

Let’s not do any of these things “Here are nine ways we could really screw things up.” MIT’s Andrew McAfee gets right to the heart of the matter with this pithy post on how we m...