Press Releases - Arnold Group

“Chemistry Nobel winners harnessed evolution to teach old proteins new tricks” by Johanna L. Miller. Physics Today, December 1, 2018.
“Evolved enzymes serve up diverse cyclopropanes” by Carmen Drahl. C&EN News, February 28, 2018.
Our work in forming C-Si bonds was featured in the most read story of 2017 in Astrobiology Magazine!
“Using Synthetic Biology to Engineer Membrane Proteins.” Twist Bioscience Blog, March 6, 2017.
“Engineering Green Biocatalysts for Chemical Reactions Not Known in Biology,” K.E. Hernandez, ACS Green Chemistry: The Nexus Blog (2017)
Frances Arnold is the recipient of the 2017 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research. NAS News, January 24, 2017.
Engineering Green Biocatalysts for Chemical Reactions Not Known in Biology. ACS Green Chemistry: The Nexus Blog, January 17, 2017.
Shortcut leads to branched tryptophans, by Louisa Dalton. C&EN, July 25, 2016.
Frances Arnold to receive honorary degree from the University of Chicago, University Chicago News, June 3, 2016.
Frances Arnold wins 2016 Millennium Technology Prize, Technology Academy of Finland, March 24, 2016.
“Researchers take small step toward silicon-based life,” by Robert Service, Science News, March 18, 2016.
10 Start-ups to watch: Provivi—making pest control sustainable with synthetic biology. C&EN cover stories, November 2, 2015.
Engineering the P450 enzyme to perform new reactions, Phys.org, April 22, 2015.
Frances Arnold elected to National Academy of Inventors, NAI Breaking News, December 16, 2014.
Frances Arnold now chairs the Packard Fellows Advisory Panel, Packard Foundation News, December 15, 2014.
“Enzymes and metals enable regiodivergent organic reactions,” by Stephen K. Ritter, C&EN, November 3, 2014.
“Evolution gets an assist,” by Mark F. Bernstein, Princeton Alumni Weekly, October 22, 2014 issue.
Former postdoc Murat Acar (Yale) wins NIH New Innovator Award, Yale News, October 6, 2014.
“Sensing neuronal activity with light,” Caltech News, September 18, 2014.
Our new P450 carbenoid/nitrenoid transfer biocatalysts to be distributed by Strem
“15 people, including 3 women, inducted into 2014 Inventors Hall of Fame,” by Susanna Kim, ABC News, May 13, 2014.
“Caltech bioengineer inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame,” by Adam Poulisse, Pasadena Star-News, March 5, 2014.
“ Sex in the test tube,” M – The Explorer Magazine, September 16, 2013.
“ Arnold appointed new director of Rosen Bioengineering Center,” Caltech News, August 8, 2013.
“ Frances Arnold wins ENI award for renewable-energy work,” Caltech News, June 3, 2013. WebWire, June 27, 2013.
“Frances Arnold awarded 2013 Emanuel Merck lectureship ,” Merck Press Release, May 14, 2013.
“Dr. Frances H. Arnold joins Genomatica’s scientific advisory board,” Genomatica Press Release, May 3, 2013.
“The director of evolution: how Frances Arnold mutates DNA and breeds strange, new, and useful creatures,” by Jennifer Ouellette, Slate Magazine, March 8, 2013.
“State legislators honor Frances Arnold,” Caltech News and Events, March 3, 2013.
“Directed evolution pioneer Frances Arnold opens up about sustainable biofuels (video),” by Cara Santa-Maria, Huffington Post Science, February 25, 2013.
“President Obama honors the country’s top innovators and scientists of 2011,” White House, February 1, 2013.
“Caltech chemical engineer Frances Arnold awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation,” by Kimm Fesenmaier, Caltech News & Events, December 22, 2012.
“Frances Arnold’s directed evolution,” by Colleen Shalby, American Association for the Advancement of Science, August 31, 2012.
“Heat beaters: Scientists seek enzymes that don’t mind working at high temperatures,” by Rebecca Cheung, Science News, August 11, 2012.
NAE member Frances Arnold to judge inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize in Engineering NAE News, June 6, 2012.
“Frances Arnold’s directed evolution,” by Olga Kharif, Bloomberg Businessweek Technology, March 15, 2012.
“American Academy of Arts and Sciences to induct 231st Class of Members,” PR Newswire, Cambridge, MA, September 28, 2011.
“Protein engineering: navigating between chance and reason,” Technology Feature in Nature Methods 8, 623-626, August 2011.
“Frances Arnold: Careerpath of a Caltech scientist,” by Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2011.
“Protein evolution: On the origin of proteins,” Chemistry World, pp. 42-45, March 2011.
“Mother Nature is her lab partner,” by Joe Piasecki, La Canada Valley Sun, March 9, 2011.
“Frances Arnold accepts the 2011 Draper Prize,” Washington D.C., February 22, 2011.
“Caltech’s Frances Arnold wins Draper Prize for biofuels-related research,” by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2011.
“Directed evolution battles protein ignorance,” by Andrew S. Wiecek, BioTechniques, September 2010.
“Enzyme research speeds cellulosic ethanol development,” by Bryan Sims, Biomass Magazine, June 2009.
“Team spirit,” by Susan Gaidos, Science News, January 17th, 2009, pg. 20.
“Engineering an ecosystem,” by Erin Fults, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Computing Life, July 9, 2008.
“Hyrdoxylation reactions with P450 enzymes,” by Martin Mayhew, Spiros Kambourakis, and David Rozzell of Codexis, Biocatalysis, May 2008.
“Newsmakers.” Science, Volume 320, Number 5878, Issue of 16 May 2008.
“TR10: Cellulolytic Enzymes,”by Alexandra M. Goho, MIT Technology Review, March/April 2008.
“Codexis launches Codex^TM MicroCyp platform to produce drug metabolites and novel lead compounds.” Introduced at Informex 2008.
“Artificial P450 enzymes created: Computational method leads to library of enzymes that fold and function,” by Celia Arnaud, Chemical & Engineering News, April 17, 2006.
“A smart mutation scheme produces hundreds of functional proteins,” by Richard Robinson, PLoS Biology April 11, 2006.
“Custom-made microbes, at your service,” by Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, January 17, 2006.
“Sense and sensitivity,” Nature Research Highlights, October 6, 2005.
“Highly goes slowly,” Journal of Cell Biology: Research Roundup, October, 2005.
“Scientists uncover rules that govern the rate of protein evolution,” Caltech Today, September 21, 2005.
“Synthetic life,” Scientific American, April 26, 2004.
“A quorum can kill,” Science Now Magazine, April 5, 2004.
“Researchers coax bacteria to produce powerful, elusive catalyst,” National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs News, January 15, 2004.
“Microbes made to order,” Science vol. 303, January 9, 2004.
“New carotenoid has implications for evolution, bioengineering,” ASM News, August 2003.
“Protein sex provides a prescription for power,” by Tom Siegfried, Dallas Morning News, March 17, 2003.
“Prospecting for proteins,” by Elizabeth K. Wilson, Chemical & Engineering News, pp. 49-51, December 17, 2001.
“Biotech speeds its evolution,” by Kathryn Brown, Technology Review, November/December 2000.
“Selling evolution in ways Darwin never imagined,” by Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, October 28, 2000.
“Sexual chemistry in the lab causes bacteria to turn red,” by Tom Siegfried, The Dallas Morning News, July 10, 2000.
“Color me red,” commentary by Tracy Smith, Nature Structural Biology, 7:536, July, 2000.
“‘Directed evolution’ creates unusual carotenoid-producing bacteria,” Bioresearch Online, July 3, 2000.
“Caltech researchers breed new genes to make natural products in bacteria,” June 27, 2000.
“Caltech Professor Frances Arnold elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering,” May 10, 2000.
“Sorting on silicon,” Science 286: 2293-2294, December 17, 1999.
“Caltech scientists develop new cell sorter,” November 8, 1999.
“Evolution on fast-forward,” Business Week, September 27, 1999.
“Sex in a bottle,” The Economist, June 26, 1999.
“Caltech researchers use the ‘unnatural selection’ of directed evolution to alter a bacterial enzyme,” June 19, 1999.
“Picking a winner,” commentary by Roger Sheldon, Nature, 399, 636-637, June 17, 1999.
“Made-to-order enzymes,” Bioresearch Online, June 17, 1999.
“The well-bred molecule: Scientists find ways to improve upon nature by directing evolution,” by Glennda Chui, San Jose Mercury News, May 11, 1999.
“Maxygen licenses directed evolution technology from Caltech,” Discovery Online, May 7, 1999.
“Taking a clue from biology,” by Rebecca L. Rawls, Chemical & Engineering News, pp. 38-43, April 12, 1999.
“Evolution’s test tube revolution,” by Paul Jacobs, The Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1999.
“Touched by nature,” by Charles W. Petit, U.S. News & World Report, pp. 43-45, July 27, 1998.
“Hot-blooded proteins,” by Corinna Wu, Science News, 153, 296-298 (1998).
“Acid test turns out sweet,” by Andy Coghlan, New Scientist, p. 22, 12 April 1997.
“New glucose test on the way for diabetes,” by Janet Raloff, Science News, 151, p. 190, March 29, 1997.
“Caltech scientists invent polymer for detecting blood glucose,” March 24, 1997.
“Going places: Forced and natural molecular evolution,” by M. K.Winson and D. B. Kell, Trends in Biotechnology 14, 323-325 (1996) .
“Protein crystallization method may have broad applications,” by Elizabeth Wilson, Chemical & Engineering News, pp. 6-7, May 6, 1996.
“Engineers demonstrate technique for crystallizing proteins,” April 29, 1996.
“Extreme enzymes,” by Neil Gross, Business Week, pp. 84-86, April 1, 1996.
“Chemical engineers show that directed evolution can be useful,” March 27, 1996.
“Young engineers air hot topics at first frontiers in engineering symposium,” by Elizabeth K. Wilson, Chemical & Engineering News, pp. 22-27, Oct. 16, 1995.
“Co-opting a blind watchmaker,” by Faye Flam, Science, 265, 1032-1033 (1994).
“Molecular imprints make a mark,” by Faye Flam, Science, 263, 1221-1222 (1994).
“Evolution in a test tube,” by Karen F. Schmidt, Science News, 144, 90-92 (1993).
“Test-tube survival of the molecularly fit,” by Stephen Hart, BioScience, 43 (11), 738-741 (1993).
“Polymers recognize protein analogs,” Chemical & Engineering News, p. 22, September 16, 1991.