Study Fails to Confirm Existence of Arsenic-Based Life
A strange bacterium found in California’s Mono Lake cannot replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic, according to researchers who have been trying to reproduce the results of a controversial report published in Science in 2010. [More] ...
Source: Scientific American - Monday, 23 January
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