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Podcast: Big Brains
Episode: Life’s Mysterious Origins With Jack Szostak
Description: Hello Big Brains listeners! Our podcast is coming up on an important milestone … our 100th episode! As part of the month-long celebration, we’re looking back at some of our favorite episodes—highlighting a different world-changing idea or discovery each week.
What are the biggest questions in science today: Can we cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, make it to Mars? For Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, the biggest question is still much more fundamental: What is the origin of life?
Jack Szostak has dedicated his lab to piecing together the complex puzzle of life’s origins on Earth. The story takes us...