fromWIRED
2 days agoHow the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different
Kitty couldn't have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently cautioned against the synthesis of mirror-image lifeforms for this reason-if any were to escape the lab, they could evade regular lifeforms' defense mechanisms.
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