Three scientists share Nobel for pioneering work on phage display and enzymes; Kite antes up $10M in TCR discovery deal
→ Frances Arnold from the California Institute of Technology will share this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry. Her work on the “directed evolution” of enzymes offered a new approach to bespoke catalysts for new chemical reactions, setting up an advance that has played a role in pharmaceuticals as well as renewable energy. She is being recognized alongside George Smith and Sir Gregory Winter, who played a pioneering role in phage display, which has had a major impact on the development of antibodies.
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