We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
We can create new food substances.
My idea right from the beginning, I guess, was to dismantle the immune system one gene at a time so we could track the mutations that cause problems.
At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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