The life of super-Earths : how the hunt for alien worlds and artificial cells will revolutionize life on our planet /

"In the past year, we have witnessed unprecedented breakthroughs in the seemingly unrelated fields of synthetic biology and exoplanetary astronomy. Just recently, arsenic-based bacteria was discovered in a California lake-both puzzling and electrifying the scientific world. In The Life of Super...

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Main Author:	Sasselov, Dimitar D.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, [2012]
Subjects:	Exobiology. Synthetic biology. Extrasolar planets. Life > Origin. Life on other planets. Science. Astronomy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book