Our next story now takes us to Berkeley microbiology lab where we're given a 10 out of 10 to a furry squirrel who learned how to ring a bell to get a treat.
It could be networks of microbiology labs that perform clinical testing for a whole country during an outbreak or a single vaccination clinic that boosts the immunity of a given neighborhood against certain diseases.
And I went to this meeting in 2015 and I had never met Peter before and he just pitched to the room this idea of combining deep subsurface microbiology with geology.
Invented by scientists in the Netherlands, the basic concept is to combine engineering with microbiology, and embed bacteria that can create limestone directly in the concrete.
The Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003-by then, Rotimi was teaching microbiology at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.-sequenced most of a single person's genome.
In other words, he says, the tools of modern microbiology allow scientists to finally listen in to the conversations happening in these tiny cheese-rind communities.
To tackle outbreaks, scientists use techniques from epidemiology, anthropology, microbiology, sociology, and more to better understand the drivers of diseases and identify the ways we can act to keep ourselves safe.