Lab-made ‘mirror bacteria’ risks life on Earth, scientists warn

Leading scientists have called for any efforts to one day make “mirror bacteria” in a lab to stop – warning that it would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth. Despite being many years away from a reality, they fear synthetic bacteria – which mirrored molecules found in nature – could be invisible to anything that could kill it, allowing it to spread without check – putting all forms of life at risk of lethal infections.