TWO SEPARATE QUESTS, ONE TO DISCOVER HABITABLE WORLDS, THE OTHER TO SYNTHESIZE ARTIFICIAL ORGANISMS UNITE TO REDEFINE LIFE & ITS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

On Discovering Life § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM: "CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has begun refining our understanding of the fabric of space and time, and NASA’s Kepler mission is sharpening our estimates of how common Earth-like planets are in our galaxy. Yet as these cosmic-scale projects open the second decade of the new millennium they are returning science to a frontier that seems oddly 19th century. Science is going back to the scale of life—that middle ground of minute energies and high complexities that lies between the immense galaxies and the infinitesimal particles."