A Spanish Scientist Creates Synthetic Life Capable of Imitating Organic Systems

The Spanish astrobiologist Juan Pérez Mercader, principal researcher at the Initiative on the Origin of Life at Harvard University (United States), has become the first scientist to create artificial life of zero: that is, completely synthetic systems that behave like natural living. His finding, described in an article published this Monday in the magazine PNAS, represents a milestone in synthetic biology and new materials, and opens the door, …

Spanish astrobiologist Juan Pérez Mercader, principal researcher at the Initiative on the Origin of Life at Harvard University (United States), has become the first scientist to create artificial life from zero: that is, completely synthetic systems that behave like natural living.The entry Spanish physicist Juan Pérez Mercader manages to create artificial life from scratch was first published in Digital Process.