title: DNA technologies: what's next applied to microbiology research?
abstract: This perspective discusses current DNA technologies used in basic and applied microbiology research and speculates on possible new future technologies. DNA remains one of the most fascinating molecules known to humans and will continue to revolutionize many areas ranging from medicine, food and forensics to robotics and new industrial bioproducts/biofuel from waste materials. What's next with DNA is not always obvious, but history shows the international microbiology research community will readily adopt it.
authors.affiliation: School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. jtrevors@uoguelph.ca
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Trevors
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Masson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D058045:Artificial Cells; D004247:DNA; D004260:DNA Repair; D044707:Forensic Sciences; D015870:Gene Expression; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017403:In Situ Hybridization; D054892:Metagenome; D046228:Microarray Analysis; D008828:Microbiological Techniques; D044085:Microfluidics; D016296:Mutagenesis; D036103:Nanotechnology; D012371:Robotics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004247:DNA