Experts said the organisms, which are at least a decade away from being developed, could cause deadly infections to easily spread, resulting in "unprecedented and irreversible harm" to life on Earth.

“ Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and carbohydrates have a unique structural property that still perplexes scientists.

Mirror bacteria' could have a devastating impact on life on Earth if research into creating it continues, according to a group of scientists who have issued a stark warning

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology could create mirror versions of natural molecules, with devastating consequences for life on Earth

A group of the world's leading biologists have called for an immediate halt on a technology you've probably never even heard of — but is so dangerous that it could devastate life itself on this planet.

However, the rapid progress in synthetic biology comes with risks that scientists say we are not fully prepared to manage. Now, a group of international researchers is warning that one such innovation — mirror-image bacteria — could become a danger too great to ignore.

Dozens of scientists are calling in no uncertain terms for a halt on research to create "mirror life," particularly "mirror bacteria" that could "pose ecological risks" and possibly cause "pervasive lethal infections in a substantial fraction of the plant and animal species,

Now he is among the 38 scientists who are warning against it. The fact that the body can't break down these mirror-version proteins was initially considered a selling point, but that incompatibility with 'natural' life is also what now has scientists concerned.

On a molecular level, life as we know it has a surprising bias. The building blocks of life — DNA, RNA, and proteins — have a “handedness,” like our left and right hands. For reasons still unclear, nature almost exclusively uses right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins.