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Dimitar D. Sasselov, who directs the Origins of Life Initiative, met Venter at a small conference on the concept of life held in Connecticut last August. The two discovered their shared interest in synthetic biology, and Venter expressed interest in joining the Initiative...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Venter Appointed Visiting Scholar | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," said Xavier Delfosse, an astronomer with Grenoble University in France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times, "It's 20 light-years [away]. We can go there." (Sasselov did not make it clear just how we'd make that 120 trillion mile trip when it still takes us eight months to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life on the New Planet? | 4/25/2007 | See Source »

...ambition is to make Harvard the place where the first earth-like planets are discovered and studied,” Sasselov said...

Author: By Tyler D. Sipprelle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Field Exotic Questions | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...Sasselov, the initiative’s director, has spearheaded a new way to discover planets—specifically those that might harbor life...

Author: By Tyler D. Sipprelle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Field Exotic Questions | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

...audience member then asked about a Navajo legend stating that life originated in space. Speaker and professor of astronomy, Dimitar Sasselov, answered “the sky is a big place,” eliciting laughter from the crowd...

Author: By Tyler D. Sipprelle, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scientists Field Exotic Questions | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

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