Arsenic-eating bacteria found
Nasa scientists re-think what organisms need to survive after surprising discovery.
Published On 3 Dec 2010
Nasa scientists are putting their ideas of life back under the microscope, after a surprising discovery in California.
They found an organism whose basic building blocks include arsenic, a substance that is poisonous to most things living on Earth. And that’s making them re-think what organisms need to survive – here on earth, and elsewhere.
Al Jazeera’s Jesse Mesner-Hage reports.
Source: Al Jazeera