December 2010
9 posts
Much better discussion of... →
Much better breakdown of what’s going on, and what it means and doesn’t mean. It is really a fantastic and amazing discovery, but it’s not something different from the hackneyed phrase “life as we know it.” We just keep discovering that life is way cooler than we can know.
Arsenic replaces phosphorus in DNA of newly... →
It will be very interesting to see how much of the following paragraph is actually true:
At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus...
