Is Life Fundamental?

Abstract

Although there has been remarkable progress in understanding some pieces of the puzzle, the emergence of life is still a mystery, presenting what is arguably one of the greatest unsolved questions in science. For the physicist or biologist, this may seem a problem for chemistry, and that the difficulty is simply that we don’t have the know-how to engineer chemical networks quiet as complex as life, at least not yet. However, current challenges and limitations in chemical synthesis and the design of complex chemical networks may be only part of the story