What is life?

(Photograph: ETH Zurich / Giulia Marthaler)
(Photograph: ETH Zurich / Giulia Marthaler)
(Photograph: ETH Zurich / Giulia Marthaler) We posed this question to researchers. In return, we got five intriguing answers from the perspectives of biomedicine, computer science, biology, robotics and philosophy. Life and death within us. ''DNA is the building block of life. It contains all the information necessary for life, from reproduction and metabolism to growth and the ability to respond to stimuli. Another characteristic of life is that we are made of cells. Within the overall framework of the human body, life plays out at various levels: organismal, cellular and molecular.
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