As Tom Ingebritsen's series looks to the past and the origin of life on Earth, I've been thinking about an origin of life that may be coming in the future. The quest to create a completely artificial life form is a very active field of biological research. The creation of artificial membranes inside membranes, mimicking the topology of eukaryotic organisms, is just one of the recent milestones scientists have achieved. I won't pretend to know when or if this program will be completely successful, but the progress so far … [Read more...] about Science in Review —January 2014