Sufficient Complexity And Combinatorial Chemistry In Stars, Planets And Life
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 16:14
in Biology & Nature
How did life begin, anyway? I am a research professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and over the past 30 years my students and I have been working to understand how cellular life arose. The unit of all life today is the cell, a molecular system of functional polymers (proteins and nucleic acids) that is bounded by a membrane composed of lipid. read more
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