Millennium Technology Prize for Direct Evolution

This year the Millennium Technology Prize was received by Frances Arnold for the development of the direct evolution technique, an approach that allows to evolve in vitro enzymes mimicking the process of natural evolution, and select mutants with desired  properties. Read here the details of the prize. This is a great news. I am not an expert of the field but along the years I enjoyed the work of F. Arnold focusing on the design of thermostable enzymes. Too many articles to refer to, so it is easier to get a look here at the long publication list of the author.