Playing with evolution: In his Nobel lecture, George P. Smith reconstructs the story of the phage-display idea as he personally experienced it. The development of this technique is a case study in how a scientific advance emerges gradually in incremental steps within overlapping global scientific communities.
Keywords: Nobel lecture; affinity selection; peptide library; phage display.
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