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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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
(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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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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