Frances Arnold
Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, Caltech · as of 2026-10-06 · source
2018 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for directed evolution of enzymes; co-author of DeepMind's AlphaProtein Novo enzyme work (Oct 2026).
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- Google DeepMind's AlphaProtein Novo designs new-to-nature enzymes from scratch (piperidine synthesis, DEHP degradation), with Frances Arnold's lab ★★★★
On Oct 5, 2026 Google DeepMind posted two bioRxiv preprints on AlphaProtein Novo, a diffusion system that co-generates enzyme structure and sequence around a target reaction. The authors say it is the first time de novo enzyme design outperforms mining natural sequences on hard reactions: it…
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