Golden rule of Biochemistry violated!!!!

Published by You on 3 December, 2010 - 00:01

Until now, the idea has been that life on Earth must be composed of at least the six elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus - no example had ever been found that violates this golden rule of biochemistry.

and now from that list with arsenic - normally considered poisonous.

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Submitted by LookingToSee on 3 December, 2010 - 20:59

that sounds SOOOO awesome and cool!!! just wished i could understand a bit more of it...

Caleb Scharf, a Columbia University astrobiologist, told The New York Times he was amazed.

"It's like if you or I morphed into fully functioning cyborgs after being thrown into a room of electronic scrap with nothing to eat," he said.

ahh them scientific people...jokers eh?

to get the bacteria known as strain GFAJ-1 of the Halomonadaceae family of Gamoproteobacteria

of course...right?

taken from the Yahoo article, dont know if its the same as what You posted...

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Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

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