In The Field
ACS Washington 2009: Fabrication
Today I started with a talk by Jack Szostak from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. I’d originally heard of Szostak because he co-discovered telomerase, but discovered he was no one-trick pony when he was name-dropped all over last week’s NSF Minimal Life workshop for his work on artificial cells. He’s trying to figure out the most basal brew of molecules capable of growing and dividing and even evolving.