Environomics Future Science Platform

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Narrator: If you find something that perhaps shouldn’t be there how can you find out what it is?

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Taking early action can save millions of dollars by preventing a pest or weed from taking hold and lead to a healthier environment overall.

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CSIRO holds reference collections of millions of expertly identified plants and animals and we’re part of a global network.

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We can get DNA from very old specimens and even identify the plants that insects in our collections visited decades ago. We’re using innovative science and technology to read genomes.

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We’re creating barcodes for important species which means we can identify living things by reading their DNA.

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We’re working on making species identification simple and accessible using a handheld DNA sequencer.

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Talk to us about using genomics to solve environmental problems.

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