[FRIAM] mono lake discussion

2010-12-03 Thread peggy miller
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? -- Peggy Miller, owner/OEO Highland Winds Shop is at 1520 S. 7th St. W. (Just west of

Re: [FRIAM] mono lake discussion

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Holland
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