Joelle Pelletier is an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at l'Université de Montréal, 2900 Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, PQ, Canada H3C 3J7 (pelletjo@chimie.umontreal.ca)
A new twist on DNA shuffling increases recombination frequency and expands access to sequence space, facilitating the engineering of new protein activities.