Flora Lichtman
speaker
4,817 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Flora Lichtman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like, do you ever find, okay, this turns out not to be a great stain remover, but wow, it's wonderful for fermenting yogurt.
So can you screen for multiple properties at once?
Well, what if you don't know the right questions to ask?
What if you can't think up the right question?
So are you starting from scratch each time, or do you have a library of enzymes that you start from, and are you adding to it with enzymes you find in the natural world?
Can you evolve an enzyme to do something sort of completely outside of the bounds of what life normally does?
And like, are there problems that are easier to solve with enzymes than other problems?
And is it intuition?
I mean, is it a gut feeling?
I mean, it sounds truly incredible, like beyond belief.
In the next five to 10 years, you could type in like vibe coding.
I want this chemical transformation.
Make me an enzyme.
Yep.
I think so.
You heard it here first, everybody.
We need to take a break, but there's so much more to talk about when we come back.
Turning from, you know, what you achieved, Francis Arnold, to why the evolution of a scientist.
Stick around.
Frances, can we get personal for a second?
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