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7 dic 2010

Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life

An arsenic-loving microbe found in a salty lake, which was touted last week as a potentially new form of life, is under heavy fire from the scientific community. The microbe, a bacteria called GFAJ-1, can apparently use arsenic instead of phosphorous to build its DNA, a trick no other life form has ever managed. A team of [...]

Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life


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