False

Guardian (UK newspaper)

Fallout from Nasa's 'arsenic bacteria' research | Story tracker ...

The results do nothing of the sort.

Fallout from Nasa's 'arsenic bacteria' research | Story tracker ...

The results do nothing of the sort.

Discover Magazine

Mono Lake bacteria build their DNA using arsenic (and no, this isn’t about aliens) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine

The results do nothing of the sort.

Cosmos (magazine)

NASA finds "new branch" on tree of life | COSMOS magazine

It's not a second genesis of life but the first example of what we can really call an extreme life form in an extreme environment … There is the first example of a microorganism that has really changed itself at a fundamental biochemical level in order to live in an extreme environment.

Wired News

Extremophile Bacteria | Wired Science | Wired.com

The results do nothing of the sort.

Ivan Oransky | Wired Science | Wired.com

The results do nothing of the sort.

Mono Lake | Wired Science | Wired.com

The results do nothing of the sort.

Bacteria | Wired Science | Wired.com

The results do nothing of the sort.

darwins-god.blogspot.com

Darwin's God: Arsenic-Based Biochemistry: Turning Poison Into Wine

The results do nothing of the sort.

cjr.org

A Life Less Ordinary : CJR

The results do nothing of the sort.

sluggerotoole.com

“This is different from anything we've seen before” « Slugger O'Toole

The results do nothing of the sort.

instantfundas.com

NASA Finds New Life Form on Earth - Instant Fundas

The results do nothing of the sort.

True

Cosmos (magazine)

NASA finds "new branch" on tree of life | COSMOS magazine

The new finding opens up the likelihood, said Davies, that there exists an undiscovered shadow biosphere on Earth - that is, a second 'genesis' or lifeform not related to all known life.

astrobio.net

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

It would strongly suggest that life got started on our planet not once, but at least twice, that the origin of life on Earth was not a freak accident requiring highly specialized circumstances, but a relatively commonplace event