Synthesizing life

Jack W. Szostak, David P. Bartel and P. Luigi Luisi
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Jack W. Szostak: Massachusetts General Hospital
David P. Bartel: Massachusetts General Hospital
P. Luigi Luisi: Massachusetts General Hospital

Nature, 2001, vol. 409, issue 6818, 387-390

Abstract: Abstract Advances in directed evolution and membrane biophysics make the synthesis of simple living cells, if not yet foreseeable reality, an imaginable goal. Overcoming the many scientific challenges along the way will deepen our understanding of the essence of cellular life and its origin on Earth.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1038/35053176

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