CMB Trainer Betül Kaçar and CMB Student Holly Rucker Lead NASA-Funded Study

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the origins of life on Earth and possibly recognize signs of life elsewhere.

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