SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE! AT LLAST WE'VE (ALMOST) FOUND YOU; IN THE LABORATORY, SCIENTISTS SEEK TO RE-CREATE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.(LIFE)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: February 28, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: FAYE FLAM Knight-Ridder Newspapers

At least once in the history of the universe, the inanimate materials of a newborn and sterile planet - hydrogen, ammonia and methane - gathered themselves into organisms.

And life on Earth began.

Scientists don't see any miracle in this creation. Life came about from a series of chemical reactions, says Jeffrey Bada, a chemist from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.

To demonstrate how the spark of life might have taken hold on Earth, he and his colleagues are trying to coax it to happen again - ...

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