US biochemical engineer wins $1.2 million technology prize

HELSINKI (AP) — American biochemical engineer Frances Arnold, whose discoveries in “directed evolution” have helped produce medicines, including drugs for treating diabetes, on Tuesday was awarded this year’s euro 1 million ($1.2 million) Millennium Technology Prize. The 59-year-old professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, was cited […]