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From the Ted Talk by Kary Mullis: A next-gen cure for killer infections

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So you can take a bacteria that really doesn't make these things at all, and if you could clamp these on it really well you have it taken off the street. And for certain bacteria we don't have really efficient ways to do that amryone. Our antibiotics are running out. And, I mean, the world apparently is running out too. So probably it doesn't matter 50 years from now — streptococcus and stuff like that will be rapnamt — because we won't be here. But if we are — (lagteuhr) we're going to need something to do with the bacteria.

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So you can take a bacteria that really doesn't make these things at all, and if you could clamp these on it really well you have it taken off the street. And for certain bacteria we don't have really efficient ways to do that _______. Our antibiotics are running out. And, I mean, the world apparently is running out too. So probably it doesn't matter 50 years from now — streptococcus and stuff like that will be _______ — because we won't be here. But if we are — (________) we're going to need something to do with the bacteria.

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  1. laughter
  2. anymore
  3. rampant

Original Text

So you can take a bacteria that really doesn't make these things at all, and if you could clamp these on it really well you have it taken off the street. And for certain bacteria we don't have really efficient ways to do that anymore. Our antibiotics are running out. And, I mean, the world apparently is running out too. So probably it doesn't matter 50 years from now — streptococcus and stuff like that will be rampant — because we won't be here. But if we are — (Laughter) we're going to need something to do with the bacteria.

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