LU researcher: NASA's ET hype does disservice to science

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 09:30 in Physics & Chemistry

NASA researchers recently unveiled a major discovery -- the first identified microorganism on Earth able to thrive using toxic arsenic rather than phosphorus, which forms the DNA-backbone of all other living things. But now, scientists are voicing concerns about the study’s conclusions, with some saying the results are not what the researchers claim.

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