I just found out about the Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund - promoting research into the risks and mitigation of mirror life #mirrorlife #chirality #chemsky #biology
www.mbdialogues.org/about
"Detecting and controlling #mirrorlife is especially difficult because almost all diagnostic tests and tools are designed to find regular life forms"
The good news is that we have figured out an assay for mirror life - see our #ChemRxiv #preprint
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
#ChemSky #Biology
Even the United Nations are writing security briefings are #mirrorlife threats! #ChemSky #chiral #chirality #biology
www.un.org/scientific-a...
'Mirror life' - life of the opposite chirality to our own - poses a distant, yet serious, #biosecurity threat. In this #ChemRxiv preprint, we set out molecules emitting ciruclarly polarised light can be used to identify and screen against #mirrorlife threats.
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
The @thebulletin.org Doomsday Clock this week said #MirrorLife studies, #AI-enabled pathogen design, #bioweapon risks and fragile health systems raise global #biosecurity concern. Read in full here: thebulletin.org/wp-content/u...
Just published: the Doomsday Clock is set at 85 seconds to midnight. Fantastic summary of the statement in the first 4 (of only 21) pages. And this is the first I’ve heard of #MirrorLife and #MirrorCells.
#ClimateCrisis #DoomsdayClock #NuclearProliferation #autocracy #pathogens #LLMs
Knowledge for knowledge's sake shouldn't be justified. Some things are better left unknown.
Don't pursue #MirrorLife.
The Terrifying Beauty of “Mirror Life”: When Science Crosses Its Own Reflection
If you’re sensitive or anxious about nuclear waste or war, you might want to pass on this one.
JZ Murdock
#science #mirrorlife
jzmurdock.substack.com/p/the-terrif...
#Biosecurity #MirrorLife #SyntheticBiology
Mirror Life: Inside the Discussion
www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...
A nice introduction to the subject by the Pasteur Institute in France.
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From the 1970s, when the concept of chirality in chemistry became more widely known, until recently, mirror ...
In a briefing on #MirrorLife to the scientific advisory board of the UN Secretary-General yesterday, I emphasised that, at this point, biosafety containment concerns are far greater than security concerns. (1/2)
I'd be very careful about closing all boarders. But really, #MirrorLife can't be contained, it's the end of everything, forever.
Those are truly dangerous thoughts, because there will always be an ego that thinks it can outlive what it creates.
Happy #Samhain ;)
New Release- A New Social Compact to Grapple with #MirrorLife
Catch the commentary + full transcript from the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) ASU and @unevadareno.bsky.social organised workshop. blogs.kent.ac.uk/global-scien...
#SynBio #Biosafety #Biosecurity #ScienceGovernance
#BiologicalWeapons #MirrorLife #Governance #RiskManagement #SyntheticBiology
Mirror Biology: Governing the Next Frontier of Life Sciences @lakshmyrkrish.bsky.social
www.orfonline.org/expert-speak...
In a pre-emptive move towards ensuring the responsible application of emerging biological ...
#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #BioriskManagement #Governance #Science
Prevention Beats Nonproliferation: Addressing the Risks of Mirror Life
carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/1...
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According to recent analyses, mirror bacteria could present two main dangers. First, they could evade the ...
#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #BioriskManagement #Governance #Science
Paris Conference on Risks from Mirror Life
www.parismirrorlife.org
[Workshop report and recordings available]
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This Conference was the first in a series of international meetings bringing together a wide ...
The #MirrorLife dialogue continued this week in the English countryside. Lots of food for thought and some wonderful new acquaintances too
This week in Manchester, UK, scientists will be deliberating whether to restrict research that could eventually enable #MirrorLife — synthetic cells built from molecules that are mirror images of those found in the natural world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How far should restrictions on #mirrorlife research go?
Debate intensifies.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is no joke.
It's not some strange theoretical, "oh that's silly.'
Has humanity advanced to this point before? I've studied 'the long now’ over 10k yrs. There wouldn't be anything of what you see. Zero.
Could this type of event happen say 30,000 years ago?
#MirrorLife
youtu.be/TU3HUqUZeYw?...
@Debriefmedia #Debriefmedia #Scientists fear #mirrorlife #synthetically produced in the #lab could create a #dangerous new form of #biology
www.youtube.com/shorts/OscxI...
thedebrief.org/scientists-f...
"Mirror Life" is Still a Hypothetical. Here's Why it Should Probably Stay That Way.
healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...
#mirrorlife #bacteria #dna #Blacksky #science
Scientist Warns That New Synthetic Lifeform Could Spell Doom for Humankind | #MirrorLife
Mirror Life: The Science of Building a Biochemical Reflection.
alisviews.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/m...
#mirrorlife #biochemistry #DNA #genetics
Also: #MirrorLife #ChiralCells #AminoAcids #GeneticManipulation #Bioscience #NuclearArmageddon #SciFiConcepts
Summer picks: what is ‘mirror life’ and why are scientists sounding the alarm? – podcast #Science #Biology #Microbiology #MirrorLife #SciencePodcast #Biodiversity
Preview: The Rise of Mirror Life rodtrent.substack.co...
#MirrorLife
In @thetimes.com, I highlight that for some of the scientists at the Paris #MirrorLife dialogue, it had been a long-term ambition to create mirror life but that they had reconsidered in light of the discussions about risks.
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Wrapping up #ASMicrobe Day 4 with a fascinating #ScienceAndSociety keynote session on #MirrorLife #ASMicrobiology