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Lecturer highlights metagenomics and marine biotechnology as sources of new medicines and tools
Summary
The seminar emphasized metagenomics' revelations about microbial diversity in oceans, novel marine‑derived compounds with biomedical potential, and risks posed by biodiversity loss and overfishing.
A university lecturer told the President's Lecture Series that metagenomics and marine microbiology are revealing vast, previously hidden diversity that could yield new biomedical compounds and research tools.
The point matters because genomic and metagenomic surveys now find most microbial species in seawater cannot be cultured, and sequencing environmental DNA can identify population structure, functional genes and novel natural products with medical applications.
The lecturer said a single…
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