Programmable Bacteria: Nature's Most Powerful Tool

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Narrator: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Ashleen Knutsen
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (kpatart.com/illustrations)
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Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
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[2] www.nature.com/articles/natur...
[3] news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/na...
[4] www.pnas.org/content/pnas/ear...
[5] faculty.ccbcmd.edu/courses/bio...
[6] news.mit.edu/2019/determine-b...
[7] www.britannica.com/science/ba...
[8] www.edvotek.com/site/pdf/956.pdf
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I cant wait for the day that a doctor can say “its just cancer”

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With Covid, I had almost forgotten that cancer is also a thing

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Programmable viruses...2020-20XX

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My absolute largest concern is how bacteria used to treat people can become pathogenic over time through mutations. But I'm also super excited to read scientific papers about the safety tests!!! And also, I suppose it's a lot easier to cure pathogenic bacteria as opposed to cancer.

[@Padeir0]

There's a mismatch between the images and the narrative that may lead to misinformation. Most of the time the images focus on single-cell organisms that are not bacteria, even though there are bacteria in the background, they're not the focus of the images. When talking about human cells too, there's a bunch of single celled organisms in the screen but no human cell.

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I need to start using my microscope.

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R E A L W A T E R

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Humans:

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Bacteria eating cancer and plastic sounds amazing

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This has profound implications for the future. Thanks bacteria, you can be so cool.

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That “Real Water” thing was kinda funny.

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I watched a lot of Discovery Channel in the 90s as a kid, so I am innoculated against being excited with miraculous claims of stuff that work on mice, because it seems most treatments available to regular people are pretty much the same as they were back then. Hope I’m wrong

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i am an engineer watching video at 2:47 AM , yeah just 3 AM thoughts. :)lol

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