{"id":26000,"date":"2016-05-24T08:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/us-biochemist-wins-award-for-rewriting-dna-to-mimic-evolution"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:45:01","slug":"us-biochemist-wins-award-for-rewriting-dna-to-mimic-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/us-biochemist-wins-award-for-rewriting-dna-to-mimic-evolution","title":{"rendered":"US biochemist wins award for rewriting DNA to mimic evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-biochemist-wins-award-for-rewriting-dna-to-mimic-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold on Tuesday won a million-euro technology prize in Finland for her work on \u201cdirected evolution\u201d, a method of rewriting DNA to improve medicines and develop green fuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrances Arnold receives the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of \u2018directed evolution\u2019, which mimics natural evolution to create new and better proteins in the laboratory,\u201d the Technology Academy Finland, which awards the prize at two-year intervals, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold, 59, who is a professor of chemical engineering at California Institute of Technology, said her work made it possible to \u201csolve human problems\u201d, such as replacing toxic chemicals like fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-05-biochemist-award-rewriting-dna-mimic.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;05-biochemist-award-rewriting-dna-mimic.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US biochemical engineer Frances Arnold on Tuesday won a million-euro technology prize in Finland for her work on \u201cdirected evolution\u201d, a method of rewriting DNA to improve medicines and develop green fuels. \u201cFrances Arnold receives the 2016 Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of her discoveries that launched the field of \u2018directed evolution\u2019, which mimics natural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50422,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions\/50422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}