Experts warn that these mirror organisms would be 'invisible' to life on Earth, allowing them to slip past the immune defences of all known organisms. If mirror bacteria were to escape from the lab, there would be nothing to prevent them from establishing themselves in the wild and threatening plants, animals, and humans with lethal infections.
Dr Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist from the University of Pittsburgh, emphasizes that this form of life has never existed or evolved, suggesting that all biological interactions would be different or unlikely to work, which leads to substantial risks in creating synthetic variants.
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