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Show for March 27, 2011: Re-Creating the Creation (from 2009)
How life may have begun on Earth, with a little help from outer space. I talk to biochemist and astrobiologist Dave Deamer about the hypothetical origins of life. Also, attempts to conjure life in the lab, and music from DNA.
Photo: Deamer believes a key step on the way to life may have been the formation of membrane-like fatty bubbles in the warm freshwater ponds of early Earth. Here, he tries to simulate those conditions in the volcanically active Kamchatka region of Russia.
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