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Dec 12, 2024

‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research

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Real life modern Frankenstein.


World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.

The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.

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