Controversial 'arsenic Life' Paper Retracted After 15 Years

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- This article discusses the retraction of a controversial scientific paper published in 2010 that claimed a bacterium could use arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA.
- The paper, which was published in the journal Science, generated significant debate and controversy within the scientific community, with many researchers unable to replicate the findings.
- After 15 years, the authors have now retracted the paper, acknowledging that the evidence was not strong enough to support the claims made in the original publication.

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