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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(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!)
Huh... I was under the impression that they were “basically just bacteria” and therefore not all that interesting. What a n00b!
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I don't understand at all deeply why they're so interesting, apart from the obvious - if you have something that split far enough back from bacteria, well, you'd expect to discover a _lot_ of new fundamental processes, and that seems to be the case.
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The biologists who first explained archaea to me - not their field - went into sort of gibbering joy when they realized I didn't know. You could see they just thought this was the most incredible thing, and fell all over themselves explaining awesome archaea-related facts.
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