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Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Challenge View Of How Life Works
Fri, 12/03/2024 - 8:43am
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All known life on Earth is made up mainly of six elements -- carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, sulfur and phosphorus. Felisa Wolfe-Simon talks about a strain of bacteria described in the journal Science that appears to be able to use arsenic instead of phosphorus in that mix.