Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

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

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.

Bio-technology is the science of the future.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.

I have a biology degree, okay?

I like a nice, crisp pilsner or lager.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

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

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

I like beer.

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could replace chemical factories with bacteria.

In the past, biology has been a backwater type of activity - a bunch of nerds in a lab. Now the sheer potential of biology to re-program our physical world is a new reality for everyone.

What I want to do is demonstrate that biology can learn how to make a vast array of molecules that people thought were outside the realm of biology.

Biology - DNA - is technology. It is coding. It is physical coding, but still code.

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

When I blow the head off a glass of Guinness or eat a slice of white bread, there are so many bubbles!

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