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Article: Miller Experiment and the origin of life revisited.
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- Life Science Weekly
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- May 26, 2003
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2003 MAY 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In the fall of 1952, Stanley Miller, now a chemistry professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), began simulating primitive earthly conditions in an experiment that produced the basic building blocks of life.
When he published the results in Science on May 15, 1953, he kick-started research on the origin of life and transformed modern thinking on a dormant area of science.
Jeffrey Bada, a professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, and an expert on origin of life processes, revisited the famous "Miller experiment" in a report published in the May 2, ...