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Mirror-image bacteria could be a boon to drug development, but could also interact with the environment in unpredictable ways

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A synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life, could be a boon to drug development.

Even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically too complex for scientists to attempt making.

Advances in technology could bring the generation of mirror life into the realm of possibility within decades .

Kay and other experts have published a commentary on the risks of mirror life in Science .

They say it's not so far into the future that it's something we can just hope won't happen for a while.

It's important to differentiate between mirror life and benign uses of mirror technology already underway, they say.

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