Some scientists trying to create "mirror life" have stopped in their tracks. A mirror microorganism could end up being a major pathogen since immune systems wouldn't notice it. Mirror-image biology ...

It could revolutionize human health — or it could spell our doom. It really depends on who you ask. I’m not talking about potentially risky biodefense lab research, but something that doesn’t yet ...

Technology to create ‘mirror life’ does not exist yet, and it may be quite some time before humankind cracks it, but the potential destruction it could bring is so enormous, that scientists are ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...

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. "Mirror ...

Consider your hands. They are essentially identical in every respect bar one: They are mirror images of each other. Many of the molecules of life, such as proteins and DNA, have the same property.

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Microbes based on mirror images of molecules in the natural world would have a hard time surviving outside the laboratory, according to a modelling study. To do so, they would need a ready supply of ...