How Close Are We to Creating Life in the Lab?
October 22, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn this conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Kerstin Göpfrich, the discussion explores how scientists are trying to create life from scratch by building self-sustaining chemical systems capable of evolution. Göpfrich explains the difference between Darwinian evolution and open-ended evolution, the role of death in evolution, and how synthetic biology aims to bridge the gap between chemistry and biology, much like the historic Miller-Urey experiment once did for organic molecules.
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