When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules.

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A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose unprecedented risks to human life and ecosystems ...

Scientists believe that mirror bacteria constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature could put life on Earth at an ‘unprecedented risk’. The international group of Nobel laureates and ...

A group of scientists have issued a stark warning over "mirror bacteria" that poses an "unprecedented risk" to life on Earth. Molecules such as DNA or amino acids are described by scientists as ...

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So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without existing barriers to protect against them Eli Wizevich History ...

A group of researchers has published new findings in Science Policy Forum on potential risks from the development of mirror bacteria—synthetic organisms in which all molecules have reversed ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...