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Old 12-02-2010, 02:57 PM   #26
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I jumped into the middle of the press conference but apparently they took microbes and forced them to assimilate arsenic in their code, by putting them in an arsenic environment, with no phosphorus, that otherwise had everything that they needed to survive. They state that at least one of the arsenide proteins occurs spontaneously at room temperature, which comes from work done in the 1980s, rather than being a new finding.

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