translated from Spanish: Awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to three scientists for advances in the development of proteins

El Premio Nobel de Química was awarded today on the one hand to the American Frances Arnold and other jointly Geor American GE Smith and Briton Gregory Winter to develop proteins that solve chemical problems of humanity, announced in Stockholm the Suecia.Arnold Academy of Sciences is awarded for “directed evolution of enzymes”, while that Smith and Winter is les recognizes “the presentation in phage peptide and antibody”. According to the Academy, it is a prize to the ability to control the power of evolution to achieve benefits for humanity. Smith developed a method that used bacteriophages – viruses which infect bacteria – to develop new proteins. Winter used that method, known as “phage display” (phage on-screen) for pharmaceutical production. Arnold, for his part, managed to lead for the first time enzymes in the desired direction. These enzymes (protein molecules) are now used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and biofuels. With Arnold are two women this year awarded a Nobel Prize in a scientific category, since Tuesday was one of the award-winning Canadian Donna Strickland with the physics for their advances in laser technology. This year he had returned to speculating that the Nobel Prize of chemistry or medicine might be for Spanish microbiologist Francisco Martínez Mojica to discover the genetic mechanism CRISPR-Cas9, which contributed to the development of a new DNA editing tool, but finally it was not so. In 2017, the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to the Swiss Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank American and Briton Richard Henderson to develop crioelectronico microscope to determine the structures of biomolecules in solution at high resolution. Each Nobel Prize is endowed with nine million Swedish Crowns (about 860,000 euros/1 million dollars) and the ceremony takes place on 10 December, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of its founder, Alfred Nobel.

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