It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

Science & technology | Through a glass, darkly It may soon be possible to create “mirror life” Such research poses risks for humanity and the planet |7 min read BIOLOGY IS HANDED. In other words, many molecules essential to living organisms come in two distinct forms which, like human hands, are non-identical mirror images of one another. For a lot of those molecules, though, life on Earth employs...