His goal: to unravel the origins of life

To discover the secrets of the universe, you need to mess with primordial ooze. Jack Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard University and a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, is exploring the origins of life by trying to recreate the first sputterings of evolutionary biology in a test tube. Through the process of hatching simple cells in the laboratory, ... (Full article: 737 words)

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