From Bio-organic Chemistry to Molecular and Synthetic Biology: Fulfilling Emil Fischer’s Dream (2016)
The following paper is intended to provide a broad context for many of the subsequent papers of the workshop. I will do this by reflecting on a century of development in one area of the discipline of chemistry, with a particular focus on what I am calling “Emil Fischer’s dream.” In 1915 Fischer envisioned a central aspect of the transformation of chemistry in the twentieth century, the development of an interdisciplinary approach to the chemistry of life that would not only result in greater insight into the nature of life, but ultimately allow human beings to change the nature of life itself.
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