Synthetic biology · Biosecurity
Mirror Life: A Biology with Reversed Handedness?
Mirror-image biomolecules raise challenging questions about the possibility, limits and risks of building living systems with opposite molecular chirality. Fully functioning mirror bacteria have not been demonstrated.
Many biological molecules occur in specific handed forms, a property called chirality. Reversing these patterns throughout an organism is far more complicated than synthesising one mirror-image molecule.
The discussion is largely prospective; claims about fully operational mirror organisms require evidence that does not yet exist.
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