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Chemist Thomas R. Cech received an honorary doctor of science degree. A 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry, Cech is currently the director of the Colorado Institute for Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Colorado. Cech's research served a pivotal role in the discovery that RNA can act as an enzyme—a function that had previously been viewed as exclusive to proteins. In 1987, Cech was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was awarded a lifetime professorship by the American Cancer Society...
Directed evolution—the method of artificially inducing natural selection to evolve desirable proteins or RNA not found in nature—is highly difficult to study in a laboratory setting, according to physics professor David A. Weitz, an author of the study...