Experimental progress begins to fill gaps in hypotheses for life's emergence
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
SFI Omidyar Fellow Rogier Braakman, in a commentary in PNAS, reviews two scientists' recent progress in simulating prebiotic chemistry at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and puts the research in the context of what we know, and what we still need to learn, about life's beginnings.