Enzymes Quote by Frances Arnold

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

Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste.

— Frances Arnold

I wanted to rewrite the code of life, to make new molecular machines that would solve human problems.

— 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

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

— Frances Arnold

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will…

— Thomas Carper

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

— Frances Arnold

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

— Drew Endy

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

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Using biology to pursue our best opportunities and solve our greatest challenges opens up an entirely untapped world of solution sets for humanity -…

— Bryan Johnson

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce…

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