The Unseen Architects of Life: Respecting Microbes

Your professor thinks bacteria are boring little blobs under a microscope. Wrong.

These microscopic party animals are literally running your life right now. There are more

bacterial cells in your gut than human cells in your entire body.

They're producing vitamins while you sleep, fighting off invaders like tiny bodyguards, and some are

even controlling your mood through the gut brain axis. Meanwhile,

scientists are engineering bacteria to eat plastic in the ocean, produce insulin for

diabetics, and create sustainable biofuels. One strain can literally glow in

the dark. We're talking about organisms that survived boiling hot springs, frozen tundras,