Biology Twitter, same questions: What's the state of biology today? What's the biggest contribution the field of biology has made in the last 50 years? What's the biggest contribution you predict it makes in the next 50?https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg/status/1143901794977796096 …
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From the vantage point of a thousand years from now? Archaea, Sanger's work on sequencing (& all it precipitated, eg PCR, shotgun sequencing etc), and CRISPR all seem like plausible candidates.
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Discovery of a third major type of life (apart from bacteria and eukaryotes). It's just immense. Incidentally, iap, the gene that led to CRISPR, seems to be present in most archaea, and I believe that's one of the things that led to early interest in it
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(Though it was first identified in bacteria. IIRC, it's believed to be present in most archaea, and helps function as a kind of immune system for them. Again: not a biologist!)
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they are actually quite useful in biological engineering. I.e., enzyme engineering. Certain types of archae bacteria have enzyme-variants that are more heat resistant and can thus withstand the industrial conditions a tad better
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