Can scientists create life?
That’s the Holy Grail of biochemistry and the centerpiece of a four-day symposium July 30 to Aug. 2 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Synthetic Genes to Synthetic Life: On the Exploration and Synthesis of Biological Systems.”
More than 50 researchers, including 1968 Nobel Prize winner biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, who cracked the genetic code while at UW-Madison, will be talking about the advances in science that make it possible to re-engineer cells and create life from scratch.