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    GFAJ-1 is a strain of rod-shaped bacteria in the family Halomonadaceae. It is an extremophile that was isolated from the hypersaline and alkaline Mono...
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    challenging the conclusions of the original Science article first describing GFAJ-1, the website Retraction Watch argued that the original article should be...
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    and zinc. Examples include Ferroplasma sp., Cupriavidus metallidurans and GFAJ-1. Oligotroph An organism with optimal growth in nutritionally limited environments...
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  • information Extremophile – Organisms capable of living in extreme environments GFAJ-1 – Strain of bacteria Hypothetical types of biochemistry – Possible alternative...
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    study, supported in part by NASA, have postulated that a bacterium, named GFAJ-1, collected in the sediments of Mono Lake in eastern California, can employ...
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    1978 Nobel Laureate. She played an early role in the refutation of the GFAJ-1 "arsenic life" results of Felisa Wolfe-Simon. She retired in 2021. Boulton...
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  • Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, revealed to be the result of fraud GFAJ-1, a bacterium that could purportedly incorporate arsenic into its DNA in...
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    of NASA astrobiologists in 2010 in Science reported a bacterium known as GFAJ-1 that could purportedly metabolize arsenic (unlike any previously known species...
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  • replaces phosphorus in DNA or RNA. A 2010 experiment involving the bacteria GFAJ-1 that made this claim was refuted by 2012. Anthropogenic (man-made) sources...
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    Arsenic (category IARC Group 1 carcinogens)
    compounds Arsenic poisoning Arsenic toxicity Arsenic trioxide Fowler's solution GFAJ-1 Grainger challenge Hypothetical types of biochemistry Organoarsenic chemistry...
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