Synthetic biology yields clues to evolution and the origin of life

Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 15:42 in Biology & Nature

Researchers in the field of synthetic biology are still a long way from being able to assemble living cells from scratch in the laboratory. But according to biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz, their efforts are yielding clues to the mystery of how life began on Earth.

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