Might the deadliest pathogen in the history of the world be one that life itself cannot see? That is the specter fueling a heated debate among synthetic biologists, biosecurity professionals, and ...

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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 ...

What if the next big biological threat is not a new virus, but a microbe built backwards? In a new set of questions and answers dated February 5, 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) explains why ...

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For many years, researchers have been pursuing the development of what scientists have called “mirror life.” This evocative term refers to a fundamental property of biological life. All biological ...

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules. Some ...

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