A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.

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NASA announced 'An Astrobiological finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life' http://www.scie ...

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Your booty call for science. On today's episode, NASA finds a bizarre bacterium that can live on Arsenic instead of Phosphorus. ...

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Felisa Wolfe-Simon (right at Lake Mono) and her laboratory have put an offer on the table that most people are refusing.Six mont ..

Hace seis meses se levantaba una gran polvareda mediática a cuenta de un anuncio de la NASA que terminó siendo la presentació ..

It's been interesting to watch as microbiology's own cold fusion debate has been raging. It began with an extraordinary claim ab ..

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Scientists 13 41%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) 1 3%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) 1 3%
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A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus | Science/AAAS

Time to re-write the text books again. Apparently not all living things require phosphorous. This bacteria seems to have an ar ..

A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus | Science/AAAS

Arsenate-based Bacteria? There has been a lot of press in the past week about a Science paper about a novel microbe from lake Mo ..

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I never borrowed this pot (or words to this effect), says Felisa Wolfe-Simon in an e-mail to Scie... I never borrowed this pot ( ..

do you remember this science article? Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phospho... do you remember this scienc ..

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Tests see no evidence that microbe uses element in cellular machinery ..

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Rosie Redfield of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is redoing the work published last year by Felisa Wolfe-Simon ..

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Scientists pound two more nails into the coffin of an incredible scientific claim ..

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A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus - http://t.co/aeiInQfn

Absence of arsenate in DNA from arsenate-grown GFAJ-1 cells - http://t.co/4h2mkqah (Response to this paper: http://t.co/66D1blKz)

"A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus" - The 2010 paper of controversy. http://t.co/9kGSjNvD #arseniclife #NASA

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