{"id":809,"date":"2011-06-17T08:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/?p=809"},"modified":"2011-06-17T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T22:59:36","slug":"arsenic-based-life-debate-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/arsenic-based-life-debate-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic-based  life debate continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-810\" title=\"debate cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2011\/06\/debate-from-moppen.wikispaces.com_-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"debate cartoon\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2011\/06\/debate-from-moppen.wikispaces.com_-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/files\/2011\/06\/debate-from-moppen.wikispaces.com_.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There&#8217;s no more stimulating way to end a busy week than a good scientific controversy!<\/p>\n<p>And we are NOT talking Global Warming\u00a0 this time!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>More than a dozen researchers voice their\u00a0 concerns\u00a0 about a 2010 paper that claims bacteria can use arsenic in place of phosphorus in its DNA and other biomolecules<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out this story in Science from June 2, 2011 and associated links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2011\/06\/02\/arsenic-based-life-debate-continues\/\">http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2011\/06\/02\/arsenic-based-life-debate-continues\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So,\u00a0which side are you\u00a0on ????<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no more stimulating way to end a busy week than a good scientific controversy! And we are NOT talking Global Warming\u00a0 this time! &#8220;More than a dozen researchers voice their\u00a0 concerns\u00a0 about a 2010 paper that claims bacteria can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/arsenic-based-life-debate-continues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,482,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-resources","category-chemistry-resources","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ouassa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}