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July 28, 2011

In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive

Here in a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct Life As We Don’t Know It in a thimbleful of liquid.

Generations of scientists, children and science fiction fans have grown up presuming that humanity’s first encounter with alien life will happen in a red sand dune on Mars, or in an enigmatic radio signal from some obscure star.

In Test Tube, Hint of Chemicals Coming Alive - NYTimes.com

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