2018 Nobel Prize for chemistry goes to scientists who learned to 'hack' evolution in the lab
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October 14, 2018
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(THE CONVERSATION) The three 2018 Nobel Prize winners for chemistry were recognized for inventing fast and reliable methods for “hacking” evolution – techniques that have transformed scientific research and have already led to better drug treatments, greener and more efficient chemical manufacturing processes, and more economical biofuels.
Thanks to these inventions, what nature takes millennia to do, can now be performed by chemists in weeks or less. What’s more, these prize-winni...
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