Enzyme created in test tube displays new structure, function
Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Five years ago, a pair of researchers used a clever update on a technique called in vitro evolution – evolution in a test tube – to turn an ordinary protein into an artificial enzyme, a biological catalyst capable of joining two segments of RNA. It was the first time this had ever been done.