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Varek Raith12/06/2010 8:00:14 am PST

re: #68 Obdicut

I think he’s missing a vital part: The organism won’t grow without both arsenic and phosphorus. That is really, really, really, really fascinating.

The part that is unknown, and may have been an overclaim— which would vastly diminish the importance of the discovery— is if the organism is really using the arsenic in its DNA and other nucleic stuff.

I completely glossed over that face.
D’OH!