Life with bacteria

This film is about how invisibly the future is born: Day by day, silently growing roots in today‘s life, through modern science. There is reason to believe that the most promising science of the 21st century will be microbiology. Bacteria can be taught to synthesize practically everything from concrete and hydrogen, to insulin and endorphin. And they live everywhere, from the walls of nuclear reactors, to our intestines. Almost all of their world is Terra incognita, not only for us, but for the scientists themselves. It is very likely that after a while, at our house there will be small biotechnological containers, similar to aquariums, in which we will throw our garbage, and receive gas, heat or electricity. Andrey Shestakov, head of the microbial biotechnology laboratory at Moscow State University and his team travel all over the country, from the Caucasus to the White Sea, with the goal of finding and testing microbes useful to humans. With this film we want to retain, and most importantly, to attract a new generation of scientists with positive examples from today’s science.