OpinionSeptember 16, 2024
Was Life on Earth Inevitable or Incredible?
We can’t yet tell how life got its start on Earth. That’s one great reason to keep looking for life elsewhere
Stories by Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak is a professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, leading the Center for the Origin of Life. He shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He co-wrote, with astrophysicist Mario Livio, the book Is Earth Exceptional? The Quest for Cosmic Life (Basic Books, September 2024).
The SciencesSeptember 1, 2009
The Origin of Life on Earth
Fresh clues hint at how the first living organisms arose from inanimate matter
TechnologyNovember 1, 1987
Artificial Chromosomes
In its infancy genetic engineering was confined to the manipulation of individual genes. Now the same strategies can be used to create whole chromosomes in order to investigate chromosome behavior