Head of Genetics Lab Dismisses Reports of New Lake Vostok Bacteria

“We found certain specimen, although not many. All of them were contaminants,” says Vladimir Korolyov, head of the genetics laboratory at the same institute that declared a strange new type of bacterial life was found in Lake Vostok samples. Korolyov insists that the bacteria were contaminants brought in to the lab during research, and there […]