A safe approach to investigating how organic molecules could
come about from inorganic compounds.
Today, January 21, JoVE, the Journal of Visualized
Experiments, published a modern approach to a famed experiment that explored
one of the most intriguing research questions facing scientists today—the
origin of life on earth.
The protocol, titled Conducting Miller-Urey Experiments, is
comprised of a modern and simplified approach to the method used by Dr. Stanley
Miller and Dr. Harold Urey in 1953. Their research evaluated the possibility of
organic compounds important for the origin of life to have been formed
abiologically on early Earth.