The more we study life on Earth and its incredible diversity of form and function, the more we learn. Over the past 4 billion years, our biosphere has develope

The more we study life on Earth and its incredible diversity of form and function, the more we learn. Over the past 4 billion years, our biosphere has developed the most fascinating and amazing array of “biotechnologies”. The vast majority of which we haven’t yet discovered. Thus, the more we damage the biosphere, the more untapped knowledge we destroy. The article presents a nice example of such “biotechnologies” which we have just discovered. People might wonder, how much can scientists learn from snails and algae anyways? And is it even useful? The answer is, quite a lot, it turns out. And that knowledge often becomes invaluable, usually in ways we can’t predict.