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  • "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 CodexTM 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.