What job can a bug give? A controversy over the arsenic-guzzling bacterium cultured by NASA

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Mingwei Sun et al. Protein Cell. 2011 Apr.

. 2011 Apr;2(4):261-3.

doi: 10.1007/s13238-011-1044-z.

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASPMI), Beijing 100101, China.

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