Lee Cronin gives the Beyond Annual Lecture at Arizona State University: ‘Creating life in the lab: playing God or saving humanity??’
Lee Cronin gave the Beyond Annual Lecture at Arizona State University on 23rd January 2020. In his talk, titled “Creating life in the lab: playing God or saving humanity?”, Prof Cronin described how his group are trying to navigate through the vastness of chemical space using “the Chemputer”, and how this technique can be used not only to find promising cures for diseases, but also to understand the transition from chemistry to biology, and how to create artificial life in the lab.