GFAJ-1 is a strain of rod-shaped bacteria in the family Halomonadaceae. It is an extremophile that was isolated from the hypersaline and alkaline Mono...

challenging the conclusions of the original Science article first describing GFAJ-1, the website Retraction Watch argued that the original article should be...

and zinc. Examples include Ferroplasma sp., Cupriavidus metallidurans and GFAJ-1. Oligotroph An organism with optimal growth in nutritionally limited environments...

geobiologist and biogeochemist. In 2010, Wolfe-Simon led a team that discovered GFAJ-1, an extremophile bacterium that they claimed was capable of substituting...

information Extremophile – Organisms capable of living in extreme environments GFAJ-1 – Strain of bacteria Hypothetical types of biochemistry – Possible alternative...

study, supported in part by NASA, have postulated that a bacterium, named GFAJ-1, collected in the sediments of Mono Lake in eastern California, can employ...

Stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency, revealed to be the result of fraud GFAJ-1, a bacterium that could purportedly incorporate arsenic into its DNA in...

of NASA astrobiologists in 2010 in Science reported a bacterium known as GFAJ-1 that could purportedly metabolize arsenic (unlike any previously known species...

replaces phosphorus in DNA or RNA. A 2010 experiment involving the bacteria GFAJ-1 that made this claim was refuted by 2012. Anthropogenic (man-made) sources...

known homologues. In 2011, it was postulated that the Halomonadaceae strain GFAJ-1 could be grown in the absence of phosphorus if that element were substituted...