Understanding How Life Began June 16, 2009

Some of the molecules in your DNA are identical to molecules brought to Earth on meteorites. Learn how those molecules met with the conditions on the early Earth to lead to the emergence of life.
Dr. Alonso Ricardo of the Szostak Lab at Harvard and MGH explains the most recent findings about the origins of life, and how that knowledge will advance medicine.
Free and open to the public.

Boston Public Library, Copley Square (Johnson Bldg C-05-06) 7PM