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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Harnessing evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies

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2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Today saw the last of the 2018 Science Nobel Prizes awarded, and it was finally the turn of chemistry. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded with one half to Frances H Arnold for her work on the directed evolution of enzymes, and with the other half jointly to George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter for their work on the phage display of peptides and antibodies. This graphic takes a look at the prize-winning research.

To read about the science behind the prize in more detail, check out the Nobel Prize press release here, or the more detailed scientific background here.

 

 

 

 

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