How Science Prevents a Mirror Life Catastrophe Before It Begins

Synthetic organisms are synthetic organisms that are chemically identical to natural ones but have opposite chirality.

Chirality is a property of molecules where they exist in two forms, like left and right hands, that are mirror images of each other.

In nature, life is “homochiral” meaning all organisms use right-handed sugars and left-handed amino acids.

Mirror organisms, though alien to our biology, could still interact with natural systems in unforeseen ways.