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Part 1 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#297)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Is There a Gain of Function in Virus Discovery?

Francis Arnold won the Nobel Prize a number of years ago. Her directed evolution work is, you know, almost mainstay now in a lot of research labs around the world for doing things like protein discovery. And so it's about exploring the domain space of the potential of a virus as it evolves on its own. So we have the toolkit to kind of explore that ourselves without waiting for nature to do it.

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