Thursday, December 9, 2010

Arsenic-eating microbes!

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101202/full/news.2010.645.html#update1
A bacterium found in the arsenic-filled waters of a Californian lake is poised to overturn scientists' understanding of the biochemistry of living organisms.

Check this out!  Whoever said that chemistry and biology aren't closely linked have just been proven wrong!  It's amazing how this discovery is a natural link from our chemical interactions unit to our study of DNA and heredity.

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