Such a pathway would use extremophile enzymes as a starting template and culminate with an elegantly engineered pathway, one in which every nuance could be tweaked for maximum efficiency and proven by mathematical analysis of weight-based turnover in terms of product yield and catalyst consumption. ... Further, what I find so impressive about this type of technology is how science is breaking the mirror glass that once separated the physical universe from our reflective attempts to understand, manipulate, and recreate it. ...

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