Anyone hear of how the microorganism is doing besides that it is alive and
using arsenic as a building block? Does it die really quickly? Does it shed
parts of its body on regular basis? Anything like that?
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Front page article in the NYT today has some discussion. These microbes
still seem to prefer phosphorous, but have been able to substitue
arsenic for phosphorous atoms in some molecules - even in certain DNA
nucleotides. However, the researchers evidently haven't yet demonstrated
that these