Question: Why is biology so important to the future? What has it helped us discover and how will it help countries develop?

Zoe Vance answered on 16 Oct 2024:

I think in the broad sense all the sciences are important to the future; learning more about the world around us and working to understand and overcome problems is always going to important. But biological disciplines specifically are important across a lot of major issues we face, for example I work in infectious disease which is relevant in vaccine development, pandemic prevention, overcoming antibiotic resistance, all of which are of particular importance in low/middle income countries. These topics have much wider implications than just human health as well; food security is pretty dependent on preventing disease in livestock and crops, for example. Biological disciplines are helping to find solutions to these problems and also have taught us a lot about how interactions with other living things shape them.