The provocation was that instead of growing a plant, like cotton, in a field over several months, we could use microbes to grow a similar cellulose material in a lab in a few days.
목화처럼 몇 달간 밭에서 식물을 재배하는 대신 실험실에서 미생물을 배양해 단 며칠 만에 비슷한 섬유 재질을 기르는 흥미로운 실험이었죠.