Share 'Arsenic-loving bacteria may help in hunt for alien life'
By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News
December 2, 2010The bacteria slowly incorporated arsenic into their innermost workings
The first organism able to substitute one of the six chemical elements crucial to life has been found.
The bacterium, found in a California lake, uses the usually poisonous element arsenic in place of phosphorus.
The find, described in Science, gives…
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