Aaron there, even the most cutting edge global science can start with a pond on a selfie stick.

I'm assuming that's teeming with life.

You see anything in it?

No.

But once we look under the microscope, you'll see this is a tiny part of one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever to read the DNA of all non human life on Earth.

That's every plant, animal fund guy and single cell organism, including the ones in the pond where these guys work.

It's really exciting.

Over the last 10 years or so, a lot of techniques have been developed in biomedical sciences for doing single cell sequencing.

So it's analyzed the DNA of individual cells from humans or mites, and what we're doing is adapting those technologies.

So this things in here that don't have a name, let alone being having their DNA sequence, they don't even have a name.

Yet it's entirely possible.

Yet by studying DNA from wild species, they hope to find answers to global problems like how to breed crops to withstand disease and climate change.

Over the next decade, 10 UK partners will decipher the genetic code of 66,000 species, part of a global effort to sequence one and 1/2 1,000,000 living things, with the results free for all to use.

I'm assuming that's teeming with life.

You see anything in it?

Over the last 10 years or so, a lot of techniques have been developed in biomedical scientist for doing single cell sequencing.

So this things in here that don't have a name, the little own being having their DNA sequence.

They hope to find answers to global problems like how to breed crops to withstand disease and climate change.

Over the next decade, 10 UK partners will decipher the genetic code of 66,000 species.

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