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Nanobacterium is the unit or member name of a proposed class of living organisms, specifically cell-walled microorganisms with a size much smaller than the generally accepted lower limit for life. Wikipedia
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Nanobes are similar in size to nanobacteria, which are also structures that have been proposed to be extremely small living organisms. Wikipedia
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NASA scientist David McKay published a study suggesting the existence of nanofossils -- fossils of Martian nanobacteria -- in the Allan Hills (ALH84001) meteorite originating from Mars and found in Antarctica.Wikipedia
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Nanobacterium sanguineum was proposed in 1998 as an explanation of certain kinds of pathologic calcification (apatite in kidney stones) by Finnish researcher Olavi Kajander and Turkish researcher Neva Ciftcioglu, working at the University of Kuopio in Finland. Wikipedia
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