• Question: What do you think is the next big thing in your research field? Why is it important?

    Asked by GMa to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 15 Jun 2017. This question was also asked by you don't know me.
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      Donna Johnson answered on 15 Jun 2017:

      Finding out all the ways a bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics would be quite a big thing. Once we know that we have knowledge that will help people to develop new antibiotics or alternative methods to treat bacterial infections.

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      Thomas Booth answered on 16 Jun 2017:

      For me, the technology that is the most exciting is gene synthesis!

      At the moment we can read DNA very well using genome sequencing, however writing genes (through synthesis) is very expensive and so cannot be used all the time. The applications of doing this are huge as we will no longer need to rely on existing DNA sequences and can (on a large scale) begin to generate new sequences from scratch!

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      Avril Tucker answered on 19 Jun 2017:

      I think it’ll be using viruses (also called phases) to kill bacteria. There are some quite exciting experiments being done in this area at the moment. This could revolutionise how we treat infections in the future.

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