We Fed Our Microbes Blood So You Don't Have To

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[@Jacobthejewela]

I guess I will put this blood back then.

[@riligil7007]

I don't at all mind taking it off your hands and am definitely not a vampire just a scientist

[@VikingTeddy]

Well don't to be throw it away. You can make some really tasty pancakes from it. Brings back school cafeteria memories. Bloodcakes were one of my favourites 😋

[@malkulaas6380]

​@@VikingTeddyyou must be from the uk

[@VikingTeddy]

@@malkulaas6380 Finland actually. They aren't very popular anymore. You can still find them from the grocery store, but no place serves them and schools took it off the menu a ling time a go. I'd love to serve some to my sons gen z friends 😁

[@willthomsen7569]

lol holy shit this is gnarly

[@DataSoong101]

New fear unlocked: Being a rotifer that is getting drilled into/a dying tardigrade with a hungry ciliate inside of me.

[@erwinzer0]

Haha, this post thrilled me, I didn't know microbiome could be a horror 😂

[@Graphomite]

New subject for my nightmares to entertain me with.

[@DisheveledSuccess]

Something about seeing the husk of that tardigrade evokes, a deep dark oblivion. Like the Nostromo visiting a derelict hulk. Scavengers cast to the infinity. So tiny amongst the vast expanse, seeking prey to empty. Thats some dark souls ish Hank.

[@Yezpahr]

5:24 And we call him Vlad the self impaler.

[@VikingTeddy]

"isn't all thrilling pond excursions". He's easily entertained, isn't he?

[@StayPrimal]

''Trapping itself like a shishkebab'' 🤣

[@Zelical]

I hope one day you guys can do a video on Tropical Freshwater Aquarium microbes. Just watching this taught me about a disease that, though not widely-discussed where I live, is likely the cause of yearly Guppy deaths in stores. And it being a tenacious little protozoan, the Tetrahymena, explains how it wouldn't respond to any available treatments.

[@Alondro77]

And that's how Journey to the Microcosmos accidentally created microscopic vampires that destroyed us all!

[@pandoraalberts5267]

Amazing photography! Micro photography has come a long way. I got hooked on tiny things as a tiny thing myself- someone gave me a microscope for my eighth birthday, it was a revelation. Blood featured often!

[@itsjusttravis692]

This was quite beautiful in a haunting kind of way

[@GeraldBlack1]

The void is always hungry!

[@GogiRegion]

I never have fed microbes blood, but one of the first things we did when I got a microscope as a kid was to use a diabetic finger prick to look at blood cells.

[@bugpal]

I've never seen the pebbled texture of a tardigrade "skin" before! This is amazing! It's lizardish!

[@BarteG44]

Damn that was an express notification

[@creatorsremose]

The axiom of nature - everything is food.

[@gildedbear5355]

A correlary - your waste is somebody's food.

[@LontonRulez]

Please keep these videos going! Your videos are extremely entertaining and informative! Thank you for educating us!

[@Alondro77]

The Tetrahymena are SO POWERFUL they killed a TARDIGRADE!! AND NOW THEY HAVE A TASTE FOR HUMAN BLOOD! WHAT HAVE U DUN?!!! *sees huge swarm of Tetrahymena beating at his door* FLY, YOU FOOLS!! ;D

[@literaturesim]

Thanks for the science, James's cat!

[@lindawilson3335]

Aah- so that's what I found in my aquarium months ago and couldn't figure out! It looked like the husk of maybe a rotifer, but it was full of tumbling exuberant ciliates. Thank you for helping me to solve one tiny mystery.

[@arnorrian1]

I don't have to, but I want to.

[@tommyclark3722]

Great episode! I love the title and content. You find the micro-organisms; I find enjoyment in learning about them.

[@angiehewerdine]

OK I haven't watched all the way through yet, but my burning question is... since these tiny organisms have no nerve endings, do they not know there is another organism burrowing inside of them to drain them of their life juice?

[@DjSapsan]

At this level the signals passed via chemicals. Btw, neurons are passing their signals between each other as chemicals too. So it's the same all the way down

[@wickedcabinboy]

Ok, that's just gruesome.

[@user-jm9iw6mm9o]

I wish i had found this channel earlier in life, everything could have been different

[@GaymerJenn]

As long as the cilliates don't start saying "feed me, Seymour!'

[@_TheCollective]

No, My question is why would I ever want to do that?

[@ZaynIsLameish]

Curiosity

[@NewMessage]

Did October come early this year, or what?

[@aurelmuntean8086]

Hello. Can you please tell me do yo ad any color grading after you record the video or this is an image taken only with the microscope. thank you!

[@Rubrickety]

In the end, everything comes down to worm pieces and cats.

[@TATASPIDER]

We have an old well in our house that is over a hundred years old and stock ponds in a dry area that are also very old. The stock ponds only fill up a short time during the summer, I have always found some neat creatures in them. I wonder what kind of microbes could be found in the well and ponds.

[@ikenosis8160]

When I did a bunch of blood experiments at my home lab all I got was arrested.

[@Vile]

i kept hoping the legendrea would return in the video so you could've told a little bit more about it :D

[@maxwellvandenberg2977]

Okay now make ur crews macrophages fight each other

[@MicroglialCell]

All fun and games for the ciliates before one drop of blood has one too many neutrophils

[@BrokenBluebird6]

Huh, kinda glad we don't have a scale equivalent of these [on land, not counting hagfish].

[@degariuslozak2169]

This made me hungry and squeamish at the same time

[@stevenkarnisky411]

What the bloody hell is this episode coming to? Mini Vampires. Ciliate gluttony. Zombie tardigrades. Hollowed out corpses. And it is not Halloween, either.

[@michaelconnor9578]

Food that jumps in your mouth - awesome!

[@Mathematically69]

Real shame to see this channel dying, the whole concept is super original and well done..

[@extragoogleaccount6061]

Dying?

[@LimeyLassen]

It's fun that the ciliate and rotifer can both eat each other. Who is the predator and who is the prey? Whoever strikes first!

[@chevyfish4028]

Such a fascinating world, on a microscopic level. Thank goodness they aren't people sized. 🔬

[@therealraptorjesus]

Now give them monster energy

[@pattheplanter]

Spelling mistake at 0:54 should be L. loyezae, not L. loyazae.

[@whitneythomas4937]

i’m becoming obsessed with micro organisms

[@3517p]

So interesting!

[@cantofox]

Feed it, Seymore

[@KGTiberius]

📍 MicroCosmos under a battlefield… Ancient Greece, Roman, Napoleonic, WW1… tropical, desert, tundra… the number of bodies in some of those was astonishing. Or even old butcher drain fields.

[@osmia]

"But why?"

[@Cudddlefish]

The title of this video sounds like a very strange threat.

[@angiehewerdine]

our microscopic world is so intense!

[@tsanguine]

well what else am i supposed to do with this blood now?

[@RaineHoltz]

"Legendrea loyazae" is a drag name, mama

[@jmm1233]

glad James didn't have the rules of work lab were no cats are allowed

[@anamorphicalan]

Is there an episode of sourdough?

[@zainmudassir2964]

Microscopic shop of horrors

[@cinammonstyx7622]

Why did this episode make me so sad?

[@belstar1128]

Cool i got my own microscope now but i can't find a lot of living things everything around me seems very sterile .i only saw one or 2 of these slime like creatures sitting perfectly still .but a lot of the non living things i saw looked very cool too .

[@kellydalstok8900]

Shouldn’t that be Tetrahyena instead of Tetrahymena?

[@leaedt7614]

What kind of worms?

[@user-th6rg9yq8u]

Can it be pulled off by a friend?

[@abe881]

I'm still gonna do it

[@tandyabimap-hv6fw]

Blood Thirsty Microbes?

[@gamingrootz4411]

Could you guys please tell me how music effects our cells. Couldn't find much on Google. Thanku either way :)

[@user-wy7ml3sd2m]

Nature red in tooth and claw.

[@haroldomilian6555]

😮😮😮

[@arie1906]

bruh

[@SylvainMenard]

It’s an horor movie 😵

[@roykay4709]

Thanks for this channel. Uh, I don't see a place for "super thanks"

[@maureensurdez7841]

This one is creepy

[@jackdare]

Bloody hell.. we're genetically engineering vampires now?!?

[@willthomsen7569]

Isn’t that convenient for James… James didn’t do anything weird and james’ cat DEFINITELY didn’t do anything wrong or violent, but somehow totally societally acceptably JAMES came upon HIS OWN blood…

[@uknowwhatimean5000]

wheres the blood. im disappointed. clickbaited title

[@Bluesmudge]

This was less relaxing than most of his videos... at least for me. Yeesh.

[@jtktomb8598]

Why histophageous and not carnivorous ?

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