Bacteria Quote by Frances Arnold

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the…

— Janine Benyus

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

— Mark Kennedy

By fermenting tiny single-cell organisms we will be able to synthesise all manner of foodstuffs in the future, everything from pasta to eggs, fish…

— Konnie Huq

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

“bacteria are infinitely more versatile than we are. They are metabolic wizards that can digest everything from uranium to crude oil. They are expert…

— Ed Yong

“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

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to…

— Bobby Jindal

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

— 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

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

The DNA-encoded catalytic machinery of the cell can rapidly learn to promote new chemical reactions when we provide new reagents and the appropriate incentive…

— Frances Arnold

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the…

— John Doerr