{"id":409,"date":"2025-01-05T00:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2025-01-05T00:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:25:44","slug":"mirror-life-kate-adamala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Mirror life<\/strong> (Kate Adamala)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from \u201crighthanded\u201d nucleotides, and proteins are made from \u201cleft-handed\u201d amino acids. Driven by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had begun work toward creating lifeforms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules. Such mirror organisms would constitute a radical departure from known life, and their creation warrants careful consideration. The capability to create mirror life is likely at least a decade away and would require large investments and major technical advances; we thus have an opportunity to consider and preempt risks before they are realized.<\/p>\n<p>It would grow persistently, and we would have no way of eating it [or] fighting it. So the consequences for the environment could be catastrophic.<br \/>\nUnless compelling evidence emerges that mirror life would not pose extraordinary dangers, we believe that mirror bacteria and other mirror organisms \u2026 should not be created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from \u201crighthanded\u201d nucleotides, and proteins are made from  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shinichikushima.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}