Fifteen years later, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper despite study authors’ protests

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Summary:
- This article discusses the retraction of a scientific paper published in 2010 that claimed a bacterium could use arsenic instead of phosphorus in its DNA.
- The original paper was controversial and widely debated, with many scientists unable to replicate the findings.
- After 15 years, the journal Science has officially retracted the paper, acknowledging that the evidence for the claims was not strong enough.

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