Using proteins instead of genes, scientists have now been able to reprogram skin cells in to more embryonic-like cells.

In 1953, Stanley L Miller and Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago conducted an experiment that is now considered to be the classic experiment concerning the origin of life. It simulated conditions (hypothetically) present on the primitive Earth and it proved the occurrence of chemical evolution. It was based on Oparin and Haldane’s [...]