Wow!! Thank you for this!

Horizontal mutation sounds truly frightening; it really makes you wonder how anything other than bacteria can survive on this planet. That is why I loved the (spoiler alert) War of The Worlds ending, I felt that it was probably a fairly accurate representation of what would happen, though in reality they probably would have died before they did all the cool destruction stuff.

My daughter and I have spent 6 years experimenting on how to dissolve these biofilms in vivo. It's not easy.

OK, well there's a line that I can't just let slide by :-) Are you both just home scientists? Work in a pro lab? Forgive me if I've missed that in a previous post, or maybe it's just my memory is being an arsehole again!

Respecting randomness: Experiments have been done where humans create a "fake randomized list" of heads and tails. A second list is created by a computer. Judges can spot the fake within a minute or two.

Yes and I remember vaguely somebody saying; I think it was google or facebook, for some reason had to make their random number generator less random, because humans have a fixed pattern of randomness in their heads.

Man, I'm interested in what you and your daughter are doing!

Cg