Critics take aim at NASA 'arsenic life' study
Friday, May 27, 2011 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Eight articles questioning a controversial study claiming that some bacteria can use the normally toxic substance arsenic to build DNA have been published in the journal Science.
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