Assembling and understanding the building blocks
A Laboratory scientist and an international team of collaborators are looking into such questions as "Where does life come from?" and "Can we recognize it when we see it?"In a recent article in Science magazine, Steen Rasmussen of Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geology (EES-6) and his collaborators are positing questions that ask How simple can life be? and Is life as we know it the only kind we'll find? "The work we're doing is part of trying to address that," said Rasmussen.
The research by Rasmussen and collaborators are funded by the Center for Space Science and Exploration (in alignment with NASA's emerging Astrobiology program) and the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies 6th Framework.
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