Juan Pérez-Mercader, a senior research fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.Photos by Grace DuVal Science & Tech A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth Experiment with synthetic self-assembling materials suggests how it all might have begun Kermit Pattison Harvard Staff Writer July 22, 2025 6 min read It is the ultimate mystery of biology: How did life begin? A team of Harvard scientists has brought us closer to an answer by creating artificial cell-like...
