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Scientists are sounding alarm bells over synthetic mirror bacteria
A proposal once seen as a bold scientific project is now being recast by some of its former backers as a potentially catastrophic biosafety threat, according to MIT Technology Review’s latest Download newsletter.
Key Takeaways
- Scientists who once backed mirror bacteria research are now warning it could be catastrophic.
- The original proposal aimed to create microbes with mirror-image proteins and sugars for research purposes.
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