"Pretty much everyone agrees that creating so-called 'mirror-life' is a very, very bad idea." Those are the words of Prof John Glass, a synthetic biologist at the J Craig Venter Institute, quoted in the leading scientific journal Nature in 2025.
According to Glass, and other experts, the man-made organisms could pose a genuine threat to life as we know it.
And yet, preventing mirror life from being created is proving to be more difficult than you might think.
Thankfully, for now, it remains strictly hypothetical. Mirror life is just an idea that has spun out from research into mirror biology.
The field is based on the fact that many chemicals, known as chiral chemicals, can exist in two forms that are opposite reflections of each other.
