New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

Credit: Betül Kaçar

Life requires repetition of chemical reactions. Describing the kinds of reactions and conditions required for self-sustaining repetition — called autocatalysis — could focus the search for life on other planets.

« New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

Credit: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Betül Kaçar is a NASA-supported astrobiologist and professor of bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

« New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

Credit: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Zach Adam is a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

« New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

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