But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow - DNA and genes.
Enzymes are masters of chemistry. They evolved over billions of years to perform specific biological functions. They make complex materials with virtually no waste.
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.
Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
The real frontier is making these hybrid systems where you expand the capabilities of biology with chemistry.
My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.
I'm interested in using evolution to move forward into the future, to get biology to do a lot of new chemistry for us.
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Evolution has produced chemical compounds exquisitely organized to accomplish the most complicated and delicate of tasks. Many organic chemists viewing crystal structures of enzyme systems or nucleic acids and knowing the marvels of specificity of the immune systems must dream of designing and synthesizing simpler organic compounds that imitate working features of these naturally occurring compounds.
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
Biochemical interactions are very interesting to me.
