The search for how life on Earth transformed from simple to complex - University of Wisconsin-Madison

A new NASA collaboration of astrobiology researchers co-led by a UW–Madison professor will spend the next five years dedicating their efforts to understanding how life evolved on earth, and how it possibly could evolve on other worlds.

At left, Betül Kaçar, assistant professor of bacteriology, and graduate student Kaitlyn McGrath look at and discuss Petri dishes containing cultures of ancient DNA molecules in Kaçars research lab in… [+4001 chars]

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