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Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted–15 years after brouhaha

3 merksittich 2 7/26/2025, 9:31:32 AM arstechnica.com ↗

Comments (2)

merksittich · 20h ago

Original HN thread (15 years ago):

Microbes use arsenic in their DNA: Proves phosphorus is not required for life (scribd.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962846

db48x · 19h ago

Finally.