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Unless compelling evidence were to emerge that mirror life would not pose extraordinary dangers, research with the goal of creating mirror bacteria should not be permitted, and funders should make ...
Mirror life presents potential dangers. For example, a chiral-mirror version of cyanobacteria , which only needs achiral nutrients and light for photosynthesis , could take over Earth's ecosystem due to lack of natural enemies, disturbing the bottom of the food chain by producing mirror versions of the required sugars. [ 15 ]
While these “mirror cells” could have profound medical implications, a new 299-page report warns that a mirror pathogen could spell the end of life on Earth, as such a microbe would avoid our ...
“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA ...
In December 2024, a broad coalition of scientists warned that mirror life, organisms that use the mirror images of naturally occurring chiral biomolecules, should not be created because if it escapes into the environment, it would evade predation by natural organisms and compete against it for non-chiral nutrients. [24]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Problem of the lack of evidence for alien life despite its apparent likelihood This article is about the absence of clear evidence of extraterrestrial life. For a type of estimation problem, see Fermi problem. Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between ...
Mirror biology takes a fundamental rule of life on Earth, called chirality, and flips it. Chirality is the simple fact that molecules — like sugars and amino acids — point in one of two ...
Still using "mirror life" name as in the cited articles, the name of this Wikipedia article should be e.g. "Synthesis of mirror life" as it covers the active process (in contrast to Homochirality article), in future should cover advances in this synthesis. Jarek Duda 16:16, 8 May 2018 (UTC)