A 21st century adaptation of the Miller-Urey origin of life experiments

27/01/2014 12:34

by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX)

The Journal of Visualized Experiments has published a modern approach to a famed experiment that explored one of the most intriguing research questions facing scientists today-the origin of life on earth. The protocol, titled Conducting Miller-Urey Experiments, is comprised of a modern and simplified approach to the method used by Dr. Stanley Miller and Dr. Harold Urey in 1953. Their research evaluated the possibility of organic compounds important for the origin of life to have been formed abiologically on early Earth. [Read more] ...