"Mirror Bacteria": Could Lab-Created Life Trigger the Next Pandemic?

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Mirror Bacteria Pandemic Lab-Created Health Chirality

What if a completely foreign form of life—built according to rules opposite to our own—were to emerge from a laboratory? Long confined to the realm of science fiction, the idea is gaining new relevance with recent advances in synthetic biology. At the heart of the concern is the possible creation of a “mirror bacterium,” an organism based ...