Washington: Scientists and the media should stop ?crying wolf? about new life forms, according to a well-known molecular biologist. Scripps Research Institute scientist Gerald Joyce said that frenzies such as the one over alleged arsenic-eating bacteria in 2010 could ultimately lead to lack of interest in the kind of science it would take to discover new life forms, should they exist. ?I just worry that we cry wolf too many times, and people are going to start tuning it out,? Joyce said.
?Let?s just cool it on these false alarms.?
False alarms over new life forms have ranged from the arsenic bacteria kerfuffle in which scientists announced they had found bacteria that could incorporate arsenic rather than the usual phosphorous into their DNA to synthetic biology, such as molecular biologist J. Craig Venter?s transplant of a synthetic genome into a living cell. ?ANI
Source: daily-sun.com
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