Confronting risks of mirror life

Science. 2024 Dec 20;386(6728):1351-1353. doi: 10.1126/science.ads9158. Epub 2024 Dec 12.

Authors

Katarzyna P Adamala¹, Deepa Agashe¹, Yasmine Belkaid¹, Daniela Matias de C Bittencourt¹, Yizhi Cai¹, Matthew W Chang¹, Irene A Chen¹, George M Church¹, Vaughn S Cooper¹, Mark M Davis¹, Neal K Devaraj¹, Drew Endy¹, Kevin M Esvelt¹, John I Glass¹, Timothy W Hand¹, Thomas V Inglesby¹, Farren J Isaacs¹, Wilmot G James¹, Jonathan D G Jones¹, Michael S Kay¹, Richard E Lenski¹, Chenli Liu¹, Ruslan Medzhitov¹, Matthew L Nicotra¹, Sebastian B Oehm¹, Jaspreet Pannu¹, David A Relman¹, Petra Schwille¹, James A Smith¹, Hiroaki Suga¹, Jack W Szostak¹, Nicholas J Talbot¹, James M Tiedje¹, J Craig Venter¹, Gregory Winter¹, Weiwen Zhang¹, Xinguang Zhu¹, Maria T Zuber¹

Affiliation

¹ Author affiliations are available in the supplementary materials.

PMID: 39666824
DOI: 10.1126/science.ads9158

Abstract

Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

MeSH terms

Artificial Life*
Bacteria*
Biosecurity*
Risk
Stereoisomerism*