Quote by Nick Lane

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

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

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

Microbes such as bacteria and yeast use enzymes to make fuels from biomass. We use directed evolution to perfect those enzymes and make new…

— Frances Arnold

“He seemed to believe that from such humble, inert elements as flour, shortening, and drab little envelopes of yeast, life itself could be produced.”

— Michael Cunningham

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

If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer…

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate…

— Eduard Buchner

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

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

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

— Antoine Lavoisier