Yeah, I want to see this in Science or Nature, not the Huffington Post. ;-p Of course, what else does NASA have to do these days?
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > There's relatively little information out there right now. I'm a bit > skeptical of the findings until I see something published in a reputable > journal. It's not unusual to find bacteria (Archaea) living in some pretty > atrocious environments. > > JLS > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:16 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: Jeffery Smith >> >>> Strange finding. They discovered a bacterium that uses arsenic in place of >>> phosphorus in its DNA. That is somewhat earth-shaking in the biology field, >>> as no other organism on earth has been able to substitute other elements in >>> DNA. >>> >>> Jeffery >>> >>> >>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Brian Walters wrote: >>> >>>> > >>>> > http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html >> >> Heard that on NPR this morning. >> >> Did they sequence the DNA and actually identify arsenic in the locales where >> phosphorus should be? >> >> The story on the radio said some scientists criticize the findings because >> they did not completely eliminate all phosphorus from the sample and cannot >> positively say whether the bacterium uses arsenic in place of phosphorus or >> is just highly adapted to the high level of arsenic found in its "natural" >> environment. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
