The Big Questions: What is Life?

Published on December 13, 2010

An excerpt from a recent article at MSNBC by Clara Moskowitz about the discovery of arsenic eating life forms: "We don't have a very good definition of life," said researcher Christopher Voigt of the University of California, San Francisco, who works on synthetic biology. "It's a very abstract thing, what we call life, and at what point we say something doesn't have the necessary components versus it does, it just becomes way too murky."

An excerpt from a recent article at MSNBC by Clara Moskowitz about the discovery of arsenic eating life forms:

“We don’t have a very good definition of life,” said researcher Christopher Voigt of the University of California, San Francisco, who works on synthetic biology. “It’s a very abstract thing, what we call life, and at what point we say something doesn’t have the necessary components versus it does, it just becomes way too murky.”

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