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Bacteria believed to be new life in Antarctic Lake was just lab waste
No New Life in Antarctic Lake, Russia Admits
Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics had said Thursday that samples obtained from the underground Lake Vostok in May 2012 contained a bacteria bearing no resemblance to existing types.
But the head of the genetics laboratory at the same institute said on Saturday that the strange life forms were in fact nothing but contaminants.
"We found certain specimen, although not many. All of them were contaminants" that were brought there by the lab during research, Vladimir Korolyov told the Interfax news agency.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/no-new-life-antarctic-lake-russia-130310.htm
Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics had said Thursday that samples obtained from the underground Lake Vostok in May 2012 contained a bacteria bearing no resemblance to existing types.
But the head of the genetics laboratory at the same institute said on Saturday that the strange life forms were in fact nothing but contaminants.
"We found certain specimen, although not many. All of them were contaminants" that were brought there by the lab during research, Vladimir Korolyov told the Interfax news agency.
http://news.discovery.com/earth/no-new-life-antarctic-lake-russia-130310.htm
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