Microbiology: impact on research in life sciences

✍ Scribed by W Arber

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 29 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0968-4328
• DOI: 10.1016/s0968-4328(00)00019-6

✦ Synopsis

In this essay with a flavor of science history, the influence of imaging techniques, as compared to other research strategies, on microbiologic investigations is discussed. Using a few selected examples, to what degree microbiology became a leading science during the last 50 years in gaining knowledge in life sciences, particularly with regard to molecular genetics and more recently molecular evolution is also discussed.