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Frances Arnold: From taxi driver to Nobel Prize

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Enzymes Are the Workhorses of the Living Cell

We tend to think of enzymes as the workhorses of the living cell. But they're almost like cities, these big, complex molecular machines that do this chemistry. Here I was with a degree in aerospace engineering having wanted to build rocket ships. And then I looked at enzymes and said, rocket ships are simple compared even to a single enzyme.

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