
Small But Mighty
TED Radio Hour
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Is a Wasp a Microbe?
There are different ways of assessing whether a microbe can produce novel antibiotics. So you actually put them in a petri plate next to a microbe that causes disease. That's not the end of the story by any means. But it gives you a clue that, all right, this fluffy microbe has something that's killing off a microbe which causes disease.
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