Dr. Frances Arnold
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And it worked really quite well.
Or we have a project to degrade forever chemicals using enzymes for which there's no known chemistry, but we can create that in the laboratory.
Those are examples that allow us to test our methods and see if what we say we can do, we can actually do.
I hope so.
How close are we?
It's a complicated issue.
PFAS, let me just say that enzymes are one of the many ways one could consider to attacking forever chemicals.
And one of those ways, of course, is not to make them in the first place.
So what I'm hoping is that enzymes will provide a clear-cut, hugely cost-effective method for degrading plastics or forever chemicals, and that they will win the race.
But I hope anyone wins the race.
I would work exactly on what I'm working.
It has given me endless joy, fascination, fulfillment, interest.
I just love it.
You found your evolutionary niche.
I did.
And young people find it exciting.
I've been doing this for 40 years, and the excitement just continues to grow.
It's not a field that's closing off.
Many fields...
that people were working on 40 years ago are kind of closing off.
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