Nobody knows! :-) All fields are important. Look for a good advisor and mentor, which help and promote you to become a good scientist and get later a good job! Did you know the story about the rabbit, the fox, the wolf and the lion?

Ecohydrology

Biotech

Epigenetics

The future is Biotechnology/ biochemistry

Nobody knows! :-) All fields are important. Look for a good advisor and mentor, which help and promote you to become a good scientist and get later a good job! Did you know the story about the rabbit, the fox, the wolf and the lion?

Dear Younis,

You are welcome!

I like this story very much.

Best regards,

Thomas

Thomas M.C. Binder

I agree with you and thank you for your lovely story.

I think scientists nowadays are looking for merging more than one field at the same time. That is what we called multidisciplinary fields, so we cannot say this field is more important than the other.Even though we might like one field more, we will need otherone at some poit of our journey

Dear Wafa El Matoni,

You are welcome!

This is one of my favorite stories.

Best regards,

Thomas

Molecular Biology of Viruses

The biggest crisis in the world right now are loss of soil and global warming. Both problems can be successfully addressed by increasing the microbial biomass of soil. Addressing this problem has great potential for improvement of agricultural practice and yields by improving plant health with microbes. I believe addressing these needs will take precedence as the populace takes the looming food shortages and warming more seriously.

Phytoremediation

I think system biology.

Bioinformatics applied to Neurobiology.

There's no field in biology more important than the other! All play a role in our understanding of living and non-living organisms (virology is a biology discipline). Systems biology can only be applied and used once we can assign a function to a protein, gene, lipid, glycan, etc. Thus, from basic fundamental biology involving protein structure and function, to chromatin 3D organization to how the brain senses smell, all are part of the Big Picture named Biology!

I think genetics is particularly exciting right now (despite studying neuroscience at the moment). Manipulating genes, developing gene therapies and simply understanding the absolute complexity outside the central dogma of gene to mRNA to protein. The implications are getting a bit scary but as long as it's regulated correctly I think these advances are going to change many sick people's lives for the better in the future.

But at the end of the day, until big advances are made within fields, who knows?!

Hi there,

I agree with the answer of Dr Thomas M.C. Binder. Every field in biology is important and interesting if you can enjoy it with a good adviser, and make new contribution(innovation) for the evelopment of the field or wellness of human society. And as we go deep down, we can see many fields are interrelated , and making it possible to bring out newer advances, newer applications & solutions, with interdisciplinary collaboration. choose a field you are really interested in. Good luck.

Dear Jamil,

Good luck in the all above mentioned fields of BIOLOGY, especially in the interdisciplinary fields of science ))))

Interdisciplinary Problem Solving - oriented research. As for the future, how near is it? Science is fast emerging nowadays and new fields are coming up. Bio- and nano- technologies are becoming normal experimental tools in almost all areas of research in natural sciences

Genetic Engineering

As a consequence of the lack of a unifying theory of metabolism the biological sciences are necessarily numerous and fractured - a frustrating and expensive state of affairs. I believe that this is changing!

The future of biology and the medical sciences, I believe, shall be characterised by a sea change - both of understanding and, consequently, of methodology. This sea change shall be characterised by an appreciation of the role that quantum mechanics and large scale coherent states play in all living processes!

Of course, research into molecular biology, genetic engineering, nano-technologies and bio-interface technologies shall continue to be developed and applied in the medical fields. However, as economic pressures make investment decisions more critical, research strategies defined within the context of an appropriate, rather than outdated, paradigm shall prove to be more attractive to investors and, in the long run, more likely to succeed.

I have attached an additional paper - The Candle and the Flame - this is an updated version of the structure - energy - information and development - Paper.

I have also attached a paper written recently in which I argue that the cytoplasm and the travelling waves that it supports should be considered the next big challenge in cell biology.