Would mirror life really threaten our own?
By 
Philip Ball2026-06-18T08:43:00
New modelling suggests that even if we could create cells based on mirror-image biomolecules, their natural counterparts would outcompete them in the wild
At the end of 2024, a new technological doomsday scenario arrived to haunt us. Besides worrying about the possibility of artificial general intelligence that deems humans no longer necessary, or a lab-created virus that wipes us out, a group of researchers warned in Science that ‘mirror life’ – lifeforms in which the chiral biomolecules are mirror images of our own – could, if created, ravage the biosphere.