Scripps Research Associate Professor Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, PhD, has been named co-leader of a new NASA initiative to investigate how life emerged from Earth’s early environments. The initiative, called the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium, will explore the chemical processes that occurred on early Earth and the advent of the first biological molecules and pathways, leading to the emergence of systems harboring the potential for life.