Controlling Drug Design Through 'unnatural' Selection

... Darwin probably never envisaged that, 150 years after 'Origin of the Species' was published, scientists would be adapting his ideas to improve drug design, but new research from the University of Leeds is doing just that.Enzymologist Alan Berry and chemist Adam Nelson used 'directed evolution' to adapt a natural enzyme to make analogues of the anti-flu drug, Relenza(TM). [click link for full article] ...