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What's crazy about this is that we're simultaneously discovering just how diverse and potentially useful that biodiversity is - the field of Metagenomics, which
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What's crazy about this is that we're simultaneously discovering just how diverse and potentially useful that biodiversity is - the field of Metagenomics, which started in the early 2000s, is effectively the practice of taking environmental samples and just sequencing every bit of DNA that can be extracted. It's one of the most interesting and promising areas of research in biotech right now, and it's enormously increasing the library of enzymes and interesting chemistry we potentially have access to. At this point, it feels like a dead sprint to gather and sample as much biomass as we can before it gets sold off and turned "more economically useful land."