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Published October 7, 2019 | public
Journal Article

Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life (Nobel Lecture)

Abstract

The directed evolution of enzymes is now routinely used to develop new catalysts with various applications, such as in environmentally friendly production of chemicals and renewable fuels. In her Nobel lecture, F. Arnold describes how lessons from nature inspired the development of methods for directed evolution.

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© 2019 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Issue Online: 27 September 2019; Version of Record online: 21 August 2019; Manuscript received: 21 June 2019. I thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, my family, friends, colleagues, Sabine Brinkmann‐Chen, Cheryl Nakashima, and especially my current and former students. I am grateful to the California Institute of Technology, where I was inspired to explore the unknown for new understanding and found the team with which to do it.

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