Looks like I was right after all. And we only needed to go as far as California to find it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11886943
Quote:
The first organism able to substitute one of the six chemical elements crucial to life has been found.
The bacterium, found in a California lake, uses the usually poisonous element arsenic in place of phosphorus.
The find, described in Science, gives weight to the long-standing idea that life on other planets may have a radically different chemical makeup.
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Long-standing? Yeah, by me. No other sod believed it.
So when do I get my Nobel prize?