Frances Arnold is a biochemical engineer at Cal Tech working on one part of the energy crisis. Her team is altering the genetic codes of bacteria to evolve a strain of organisms than can digest grass and excrete biofuel. She tells Kurt Andersen about the process called "directed evolution." (Originally aired: April 18, 2008)
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Fantastic interview. Love you, Alan! You were one of the main influences for me to get back into acting later ...
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Really difficult to convey this as a "sound story" and it was done beautifully. Really compelling.
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