A New Twist in the Quest for Extraterrestrials
A young female biochemist has caused a ruckus in the scientific community with her claim that one of the basic elements in the formula that has long been considered to define the building blocks of life may be swapped out—and for arsenic, no less. Felisa Wolfe-Simon made the game-changing discovery in the form of a special kind of bacterium that could put her colleagues on the hunt for different kinds of life forms on Earth and, potentially, elsewhere in the universe.
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