The review “Science” officially ends the false discovery of an extraterrestrial bacteria

It is the epilogue of review “science” officially ends false a case that has hurt. the credibility of scientists since 2010. The editor -in -chief of ScienceHolden Thorp. announces in an editorial of July 24 the withdrawal of an article published by the famous American scientific journal in December 2010. Titled “a bacteria capable of developing by using arsenic instead of phosphorus”. this publication had made all the more noise since it had been accompanied by a thunderous press conference of the American space agency (NASA), one of the laboratories, one of the laboratories, one of the laboratories researchers behind this study.

The announcement of this bacteria. discovered in a Californian lake by Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Astrobiologist at NASA and the American Geology and Seismology Agency (USGS), made it possible to envisage for the first time a concrete form of extraterrestrial life. GFAJ-1’s metabolism is its name. allowed it to do without phosphorus, an element at the heart of review “science” officially ends false life since it constitutes the structure of DNA, and to feed itself in place of Arsenic. What, for example, be able to develop on Mars.

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