"Pretty much everyone agrees that creating so-called 'mirror-life' is a very, very bad idea." Those are the words of Prof ...

There might be another universe, exactly like our own — except that it’s a perfect mirror image. Physicist Leah Broussard is “on the hunt for a universe that is identical to our own, but flipped so ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Ting F. Zhu, who led the work, says it is a step on the way to creating a mirror version of the so-called central dogma of molecular biology, which ...

For the first time, researchers have successfully fabricated and characterized a fully functional mirror-image nanopore—a molecular gateway built entirely from D-amino acids, the mirror-image forms of ...