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Film, Video Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life

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Title

  • Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life

Summary

  • Scientists, scholars, artists and journalists come together for a special symposium to discuss these questions: What is life? How might life have emerged on Earth or on other worlds? And how might we engineer the future of life, what might we make life to be? Hosted by Luis Campos, the current Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress chair in astrobiology at the Library's John W. Kluge Center.

Event Date

  • September 28, 2017

Running Time

  • 6 hours 8 minutes 57 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life. 2017. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10223/.

APA citation style:

(2017) Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10223/.

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Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life. 2017. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10223/>.