Microbiology/ Microbiologists – Where next?
publication date: Jan 23, 2008
Arguably microbiology is the oldest of the applied sciences, although early exponents doubtless had no understanding of how the fruits of their labour in fermentation for example, came about. The true forerunners of microbiology as it is recognised today would be Koch, Pasteur, Petri et al, who developed much of our basic understanding of the subject and many of the methods that are still in use approximately 150 years later. In that intervening period our knowledge of human and microbial genetics has dramatically increased and our exploitation of that knowledge has led to the current explosive growth of Biotechnology, such that clinically important biopharmaceuticals can now be produced by insect, plant, bacterial or mammalian cell lines or indeed in the milk of bovines.
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