又称发酵工业。通过培养微生物生产各种有用物质的工业。微生物工业起源很早，中国早在公元前22世纪就用发酵法酿酒，但直到1857年才由法国学者巴斯德证明酒类等的发酵由微生物引起。
该奖项授予来自马里兰州工业卫生安全办公室的曼纽尔·巴尔贝托，他发现胡须上的微生物使多毛男人成为实验室的潜在危险。
Awarded to Manuel Barbeito at the Industrial Health and Safety Office in Maryland for scientific studies that found microbes cling to beards, making more hirsute men a potential laboratory hazard.
运用在他的实验室里刚刚发明的基因-编辑技术，他可以制出工业微生物，农作物，甚至对所有病毒具有耐药性的人类。
Using a genome-editing technique recently developed in his lab, he proposes to make industrial microorganisms, crops, and perhaps even humans resistant to all viruses.
和其它生物技术一样，工业生物技术也需要改造生物分子和微生物，使其获得我们需要的新特性。
As with other forms of biotechnology, industrial biotech involves engineering biological molecules and microbes with desirable new properties.
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