Author: Tina Hesman Saey / Source: Science News
Frances Arnold of Caltech, George Smith of the University of Missouri in Columbia and Gregory Winter of the University of Cambridge have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for speeding up evolution to make proteins with new and useful properties. Such proteins are suitable for a variety of uses, ranging from new drugs to biofuels.
The new laureates were announced October 3 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.Thanks to Arnold’s work on evolving new enzymes from old ones in a test tube, “you can now use enzymes to speed up any process you want,” Nobel committee member Sara Snogerup Linse…
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