Rosie Redfield did a 5 minute review of the #arseniclife events. There are 20 slides in 5 minutes, with each slide advancing automatically after 15 seconds.

1. A Tragedy in 3 Acts

2. Prologue. The Shadow Biosphere

3. ?
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4. ?
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6
C
14 15
Si P
33
As
?

5. Act I. Out of the Shadows
Mono Lake mud

6. +As
-P

9. Act II. The Spotlight
SCIENCE
A Bacterium That Can
Grow by Using Arsenic
Instead of Phosphorus
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Jodi Switzer
Blum, Thomas R. Kulp, Gwyneth W.
Gordon, Shelley E. Hoeft, Jennifer
Pett-Ridge, John F. Stolz, Samuel M.
Webb, Peter K. Weber, Paul C. W.
Davies, Ariel D. Anbar, and Ronald S.
Oremland
PRESS
CONFERENCE

11. Act III.
Downfall and Disgrace

12. 6.02 x 1023 P per mol
2 P/bp
|

14. Arsenic in the
gel, not in the DNA?

15. Phosphate Arsenate

16. ?

17. Precipic
irreprodu
e of
result
cible
s

18. GFAJ-1 DNA
...negative mode, full
scan, high mass resolution
+As liquid chromatography-mass
-As +As
-P
-As
+P
-P spectrometry analysis...
+P

19. Absence of arsenate in
DNA from arsenate-
grown GFAJ-1 cells.
Marshall Louis Reaves, Sunita
Sinha, Joshua D.
Rabinowitz, Leonid
Kruglyak, and
Rosemary J. Redfield.
SCIENCE ...

20. Space aliens Textbooks
are made of have errors!
arsenic!
Astrobiology
breakthrough!
Increase NASA
Intelligently
budget! This is how
designed science is
supposed
life! to work...
Scientists
wrong
again!

21. Open Open
Access Science
Public
Understandi
Social Scienc ng of
Media e Science
Main-
Peer stream
Review Media