Since the dawn of time, explaining the origin of life from nothingness has generated much passion and polemic.Over a century ago, Stéphane Leduc,a French professor of medicine,attempted to duplicate this phenomenon. His work led to the invention of synthetic biology which created a great stir among the scientific community at the time.However, was he really misguided? What can be said is that the work carried out by this ingenious experimenter opened the way for as much scholarly research as violent debate.At the outer edges of science, on the borders of metaphysics, two chemists and a photographer have copied this scientist’s work. They have reinterpreted the illegible scribbles of the mad scholar in the light of the fabulous phenomenon of osmosis. An insight into their secret laboratory over a three-day period.

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