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  • Rights: The University of Waikato
    Published 19 November 2007 Referencing Hub media
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    Here, Peter explains what he likes about working in biotechnology.

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    Peter Molan (University of Waikato)

    I see biotechnology as taking the biological knowledge and applying that to get through to a product of some sort or a process, which can be useful.

    I find this work I have done on honey I really enjoy because I like challenges and finding solutions to the problems, and I think this has thrown up a large number of challenges and has allowed a lot of ingenuity to be used.

    What is involved is applying all of the breadth of scientific knowledge I have accumulated over a lifetime and using pretty well all of that to understand what the problems are, because if you don’t understand a problem, you can’t produce a rational solution to it.

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