{"id":90231,"date":"2019-05-02T16:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/arsenic-breathing-life-discovered-in-the-tropical-pacific-ocean"},"modified":"2019-05-02T16:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T23:02:25","slug":"arsenic-breathing-life-discovered-in-the-tropical-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/arsenic-breathing-life-discovered-in-the-tropical-pacific-ocean","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic-breathing life discovered in the tropical Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arsenic-breathing-life-discovered-in-the-tropical-pacific-ocean.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arsenic is a deadly poison for most living things, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean. A University of Washington team has discovered that an ancient survival strategy is still being used in low-oxygen parts of the marine environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThinking of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/arsenic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">arsenic<\/a> as not just a bad guy, but also as beneficial, has reshaped the way that I view the element,\u201d said first author Jaclyn Saunders, who did the research for her doctoral thesis at the UW and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-arsenic-breathing-life-tropical-pacific-ocean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenic is a deadly poison for most living things, but new research shows that microorganisms are breathing arsenic in a large area of the Pacific Ocean. A University of Washington team has discovered that an ancient survival strategy is still being used in low-oxygen parts of the marine environment. \u201cThinking of arsenic as not just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}