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Life is mostly composed of the elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur and phosphorus. It is theoretically possible that some other elements in the periodic table could serve the same functions. Here we describe a bacterium, strain GFAJ-1 of the Halomonadaceae, which substitutes arsenic for phosphorus to sustain its growth.

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