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  1. Lucas₇₅₅

    NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

    Well, I get that, but in all of the things I've read or heard (I didn't read this linked article), it sounded like they were making a big deal about something poisonous being in DNA, not about something new being in DNA, which is the real point of the story. Unless I'm missing something, which I...
  2. Lucas₇₅₅

    NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

    Something tells me you don't understand my point. Yeah, it's a big deal that there's a new element in DNA, but it seems to me that they're saying something along the lines of "A poisonous element in DNA? Wow!", when it's really in a molecule, so it's not necessarily poisonous.
  3. Lucas₇₅₅

    NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

    The big deal people are making is that arsenic is normally poisonous, and it's now a building block of DNA for this bacteria. But strands of DNA, correct me if I'm wrong, are actually molecules. I'm saying that sodium, a poisonous element by itself, does the same thing in table salt, something...
  4. Lucas₇₅₅

    NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical

    So arsenic can be non-poisonous in DNA molecules? Great, sodium does the same thing in table salt. Except not alive.
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