, jack, martin, and many others, the microbiota vault will be like a noah's arc for microbes. - microbiota vault, it's a project that has long-term storage in a very isolated place to collect microbial diversity om traditional peoples, and then be able in the future to use them to restore our microbiome because we know it's going to disappear. - [julia] i believe a vault like this may provide one important key to the disease free world of the future. and armed by this arsenal of microbes we evolved with, scientists will open up a trove of new methods to fine tune our microbiome and improve the health of everyone. - in the future, i think microbiome research is gonna lead to the possibility of having customized microbiome therapy, what we call personalized medicine. - by bio-augmenting our bodies with new microbes, we can train our immune system to attack cancer. we can alter the types of bacteria living inside us to treat depression and treat things like obesity and diabetes that will have a fundamental impact on how we deal with on our modern day plagues. the microbiome is gonna revolutio