BIOTA

The BIOTA Institute is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization established to support new research on the science of life's origins and to explore its wider implications for humanity through multi-disciplinary collaboration. Our activities include: providing grants and mentorship for students and young scientists, hosting online meetings and data sharing, defining and sponsoring laboratory and field experiments, and producing media to engage the public. We are taking a novel approach by publishing a set of contributed experiments to test a specific scenario, the Hot Spring Hypothesis for an origin of life developed by Prof. David Deamer and Dr. Bruce Damer, both at the University of California at Santa Cruz.