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 …
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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Can you say more about why archaea is a big deal?
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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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(Not a biologist!)
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not to forget virtual screening. A countless number of pharmaceutical drugs (targeting biological receptors) have already been discovered via this route, and life would be completely different, otherwise
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