Like an alchemist of yore, Mike Russell is taking basic elements and trying to transform them — not into gold, but into the stirrings of life, John Whitfield reports.
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Whitfield, J. Origin of life: Nascence man. Nature 459, 316–319 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459316a
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