Stories by Jack W. Szostak

The Origin of Life on Earth

Fresh clues hint at how the first living organisms arose from inanimate matter

August 19, 2009 — Alonso Ricardo and Jack W. Szostak

Artificial Chromosomes

In its infancy genetic engineering was confined to the manipulation of individual genes. Now the same strategies can be used to create whole chromosomes in order to investigate chromosome behavior...

November 1, 1987 — Andrew W. Murray and Jack W. Szostak