Chemistry Quote by Frances Arnold

Enzymes catalyze all the reactions of life. They're what allow you to extract materials and energy from your environment and turn that into muscle…

— Frances Arnold

So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific…

— John Desmond Bernal

Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.

— Frances Arnold

No human can design a good enzyme, yet we are surrounded by them after 3.5 billion years of work by evolution.

— Frances Arnold

My laboratory uses evolution to design new enzymes. No one really knows how to design them - they are tremendously complicated. But we are…

— Frances Arnold

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

— Randy Schekman

I wanted to make enzymes that would solve human problems, not just problems for a cell that makes them.

— Frances Arnold

“Buchner proposed that fermentation was carried out by biological catalysts that he named enzymes (from the Greek en zyme, meaning in yeast). He concluded…

— Nick Lane

“For an enzyme to be functional, it must fold into a precise three-dimensional shape. How such a complex folding can take place remains a…

— T. Colin Campbell

By combining chemical, biochemical and physical techniques, it has thus become possible to investigate the nature of enzymic catalysis in a novel manner, complementary…

— John Cornforth

We're seeing a move toward making things that either chemistry cannot make or can't make efficiently but biology does.

— Frances Arnold

Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and…

— John Cornforth