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So just as enzymes in your body can help you to break down the food that you eat, enzymes in your laundry detergent can help you to break down the stains on your clothes.
Enzymes didn't evolve to clean dirty laundry, much less in cold water.
And in doing so, we can generate thousands of enzymes.
And we can take those enzymes, and we can test them in little plates like this.
And we can measure how well each of these enzymes are able to remove the stains from the pieces of fabric, and in that way see how well it's working.
OK, so we do this, and it turns out that some of the enzymes are sort of in the ballpark of the starting enzyme.
Those are the enzymes that we want to carry forward, and we can repeat this cycle again and again.
So you can go to the supermarket today, and you can buy a laundry detergent that lets you do the wash in cold water because of enzymes like this here.
And in addition to tinkering with natural enzymes, like we've been talking about, some scientists are now trying to design enzymes from scratch, using machine learning, an approach from artificial intelligence, to inform their enzyme designs.
How will designed enzymes affect you in years to come?
Some pharmaceutical companies now have teams that are dedicated to designing enzymes to make drugs more efficiently and with fewer toxic catalysts.
For example, Januvia, which is a medication to treat type 2 diabetes, is made partially with enzymes.
The number of drugs made with enzymes is sure to grow in the future.
However, new enzymes may soon enable PKU patients to eat whatever they want.
But enzymes may help us in this area as well.
Recently, bacteria producing plastic-degrading enzymes were discovered.
Efforts are already underway to design improved versions of these enzymes.
At the same time, there are enzymes that have been discovered and that are being optimized to make non-petroleum-derived biodegradable plastics.
Enzymes may also offer some help in capturing greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
But our ability to harness enzymes may help us to tackle these in the future, so I think that's another area to be looking forward.
Well, we've come a long way, considering this 7,000-year journey from enzymes in cheese making to the present day and enzyme design.
We're really at a creative crossroads, and with enzymes, can edit what nature wrote or write our own stories with amino acids.
So next time you're outdoors on a muggy night and you see a firefly, I hope you think of enzymes.
Well, I see a highly sophisticated biological system, that through the use of enzymes, can move and place atoms more quickly and precisely than anything we've ever engineered.
We're also combining cellulases, the enzymes that break down complex sugars into simple sugars and fermentation in the same cell for producing ethanol.
And there are little chemical scissors, called restriction enzymes which cut DNA whenever they see particular patterns.
So many reactions involving enzymes and proteins are sensitive to the acid content of the ocean.
You have on your left an olive oil droplet, and this olive oil droplet gets attacked by enzymes.
This whole system generates a huge surface to allow more enzymes to attack the remaining oil.
Breast milk is the perfect nutrition for a baby, providing all the proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that a young body needs to stay healthy.
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