Scientists are calling for a halt to the creation of “mirror bacteria,” synthetic microorganisms built from the reversed molecular building blocks of natural life. According to a comprehensive report ...

An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

In 1958, Bizarro made his way into comic strips—an inverted Superman who lives on a planet called Htrae, which is governed by laws opposite of those governing Earth. “I was striving, you might say, ...

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When you gaze into a mirror, you see a reflection that is both familiar and fundamentally altered. This concept resonates deeply in the microscopic universe, where scientists are now exploring the ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kate Adamala, University of Minnesota (THE CONVERSATION) Most major biological ...