"The man who cracked the human genome is trawling the high seas for his next challenge, reports Roger Highfield
How to save the world: put one buccaneering entrepreneur-cum-bioscientist on a luxury yacht. Using some mighty fine nets, let him trawl the world's oceans for the smallest creatures.
Catalogue the genetic diversity of this, the most abundant form of life in the largest habitat on Earth. Then hijack the molecular machinery of these microbes to make clean energy, new drugs or boost the ability of the Earth's lungs to "breathe" more carbon dioxide, and so limit globalwarming."
Source: The Telegraph
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