Yup: Nasa Discovers Arsenic-Using Microbobe In California Lake
December 2nd, 2010 link to (permalink)
Yes~! Nasa has revealed that it did, in fact, find a microbe (GFAJ-1, to be exact) in Mono Lake, in California, that’s able to substitute arsenic for phosphorus. Nasa just comes right out and says it: “The definition of life has just expanded.
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