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From the Ted Talk by Adam Garske: How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world

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Well, what's on the horizon for enzyme design? Certainly, it will get it faster — there are now approaches for evolving enzymes that allow rarhereescs to go through far more samples than I just showed you. And in addition to tnniekrig 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 iorfnm their enzyme designs. Still others are adding unnatural amino acids to the mix. We talked about the 20 nuaratl amino acids, the common amino acids, before — they're adding utunraanl amino acids to make enzymes with ppeertrios unlike those that could be found in nuatre. That's a pretty neat area.

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Well, what's on the horizon for enzyme design? Certainly, it will get it faster — there are now approaches for evolving enzymes that allow ___________ to go through far more samples than I just showed you. And in addition to _________ 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 ______ their enzyme designs. Still others are adding unnatural amino acids to the mix. We talked about the 20 _______ amino acids, the common amino acids, before — they're adding _________ amino acids to make enzymes with __________ unlike those that could be found in ______. That's a pretty neat area.

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Original Text


Well, what's on the horizon for enzyme design? Certainly, it will get it faster — there are now approaches for evolving enzymes that allow researchers to go through far more samples than I just showed you. 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. Still others are adding unnatural amino acids to the mix. We talked about the 20 natural amino acids, the common amino acids, before — they're adding unnatural amino acids to make enzymes with properties unlike those that could be found in nature. That's a pretty neat area.

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