Definition of life: Arsenic debate just won't die

Friday, February 18, 2011 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

Life on Earth is composed of a handful of essential elements from the periodic table. Recently, one group of researchers claimed that this ingredient list should be expanded, having found a bacteria that presumably switches poisonous arsenic in for phosphorous.

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