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As recently fictionalized in the blockbuster hit "Lessons in Chemistry," biological molecules can be coaxed to form from inorganic molecules.

Previously, this method had mostly been used on inorganic molecules, but she and her mentor John Desmond Bernal were the first to use X-Ray crystallography to determine the structure of complex organic molecules like insulin and penicillin.

So far Cronin's lab has been creating quite straightforward reaction chambers, and simple three-step sequences of reactions to "print" inorganic molecules.

By constantly mutating, recombining, and refining, bumping up into the adjacent possible, evolution has brought us from inorganic molecules floating in water to the diversity and complexity of life that exists today.

His work on creating inorganic cells using Lego-like building blocks of inorganic molecules, still very much in the early stages, could change several very big industries.