Life is remarkably diverse. When you look around the world, you can find such astounding differences between each lifeform. Massive whales and Giant sequoias down to the smallest of microscopic ...

An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

Kate Adamala had been working on something dangerous. At her synthetic biology lab, Adamala had been taking preliminary steps toward creating a living cell from scratch with one key twist: All the ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they are chiral, or handed. Like how your left glove fits only your left hand ...

In 1847 when Louis Pasteur first methodically separated left- and right-handed tartrate crystals from the cork of a wine bottle, the idea of creating life from oppositely handed molecules was almost ...

At an international conference this week, experts will work to chart a path forward as they tackle the promise and perils of mirror-image cells. Reading time 2 minutes The prospect of creating “mirror ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Synthetic biology offers many tantalizing possibilities, but scientists consider some projects too risky to pursue.