• Question: How do you think advances in microbiology will be made?

    Asked by beth5000 to Claire, Kate, Matt, Rob, Sam on 25 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Kate Husband

      Kate Husband answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      I don’t know much about biology – you might be better to ask someone in the cells or blood zones.

    • Photo: Robert Woolfson

      Robert Woolfson answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      From my (limited) understanding, the biggest advances in microbiology will be in learning how to harness microbes to do useful things for us. We already use certain genetically modified microbes to produces things like insulin and penicillin.

      There’s a lot of work going into harnessing microbes for fuel production, pollutant clean-up, things like that. Areas where having billions of tiny little things all doing exactly the same task would be really useful.

      Have a look at this link for some examples.

      http://www.microbeworld.org/

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