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Subscribe to us and stay updated: Telegram: https://t.me/traektoriafdn YouTube: https://goo.gl/ZEv6Dm VK: https://vk.com/traektoriafdn Website: https://www.traektoriafdn.ru/ August 06, 2023 / Astrophysical School "Trajectory" named after O.V. Verkhodanov Life on Earth is based on carbon compounds and water as a solvent. In science fiction, you can find many descriptions of life on a different chemical basis, for example, silicon. What do biochemists think about this? What options for the chemical basis of life are possible and which are not, and why? On which planets should we look for life that is not similar to ours? This lecture was held as part of the Astrophysical School "Trajectory" named after O.V. Verkhodanov http://www.astroschool.space/ You can watch all lectures of the astrophysical school "Traektoriya" here: https://clck.ru/32ur3v Mikhail Nikitin is a senior researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biochemistry of the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physicochemical Biology at Moscow State University. Author of the book "The Origin of Life. From Nebula to Cell". Do you like our channel? Like, subscribe and click the bell to be the first to know about the release of new videos.