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elainegrey) wrote2010-03-08 11:54 am
elainegrey) wrote2010-03-08 11:54 am
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Arsenic Based Life Reading list
Via @joedecker via recent Geographile post
* http://www.ironlisa.com/
* 2 Jan 2008: Google Quick View of Nature Precedings : hdl:10101/npre.2008.1482.1 : Posted 2 Jan 2008 [PDF] -- summary of the chemical availability of Phosphorus and Arsenic, arguments against it's inclusion in life, rebuttal and notes of potential terrestrial environments suitable for As life.
* 15 Aug 2008: "Scientists have found a new microbe that lives in hot springs and uses arsenic, a substance that is toxic to most life forms, instead of oxygen for photosynthesis. The new organisms, found floating in Mono Lake in California.... Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered about 20 species of bizarre bacteria that "breathe" arsenic." (pop sci press notice of discovery released in Nature)
* 5 Oct 2009 : story which seems to be the sorce of the brief British story related by Geographile: http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_expedition&task=detail&id=3259
* http://www.ironlisa.com/
* 2 Jan 2008: Google Quick View of Nature Precedings : hdl:10101/npre.2008.1482.1 : Posted 2 Jan 2008 [PDF] -- summary of the chemical availability of Phosphorus and Arsenic, arguments against it's inclusion in life, rebuttal and notes of potential terrestrial environments suitable for As life.
* 15 Aug 2008: "Scientists have found a new microbe that lives in hot springs and uses arsenic, a substance that is toxic to most life forms, instead of oxygen for photosynthesis. The new organisms, found floating in Mono Lake in California.... Since the 1990s, scientists have discovered about 20 species of bizarre bacteria that "breathe" arsenic." (pop sci press notice of discovery released in Nature)
* 5 Oct 2009 : story which seems to be the sorce of the brief British story related by Geographile: http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_expedition&task=detail&id=3259