After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

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After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

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science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days ago

Science has retracted a 2010 paper describing a strain of bacteria that purportedly substituted arsenic for phosphorus, an element present in all known life. Science/AAAS Fifteen years after publis…

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