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billybobsky
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Join Date: May 2004
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2010-12-02, 11:05

I've met Felisa Wolfe-Simon, otherwise known as Iron Lisa, and she is a horrible horrible horrible person. Not evil, mind you, as far as I know, but certainly prone to self-promote to a level that makes her onerous to be around or near, or listening to, or having the concept that she exists.

I am glad her advisor's research panned out, but I really wish she didn't have anything to do with it...




Edit: Seems the announcement is out -- it isn't really all that surprising and the evidence isn't that strong supporting the idea that this organism is completely new -- but basically some atoms of phosphorous in the bacteria's DNA have seemingly been replaced by arsenic, which has very similar properties to phosphorus... And that's all she wrote...

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