Golden rule of Biochemistry violated!!!!

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Until now, the idea has been that life on Earth must be composed of at least the six elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus - no example had ever been found that violates this golden rule of biochemistry.


and now they have found one that replaced the phosphorus from that list with arsenic - normally considered poisonous.


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LookingToSee — Fri, 3 Dec 2010 - 20:59

that sounds SOOOO awesome and cool!!! just wished i could understand a bit more of it...


Caleb Scharf, a Columbia University astrobiologist, told The New York Times he was amazed.


"It's like if you or I morphed into fully functioning cyborgs after being thrown into a room of electronic scrap with nothing to eat," he said.


ahh them scientific people...jokers eh?


to get the bacteria known as strain GFAJ-1 of the Halomonadaceae family of Gamoproteobacteria


of course...right?


taken from the Yahoo article, dont know if its the same as what You posted...