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Une fondation qui finance les dites recherches et les chercheurs concernés, un Prix Nobel, un entrepreneur en #biotechnologies, des universités américaines et chinoises en concurrence : les criminels en puissance se proposent pour s'autoréguler, @lemonde les salue.
Ces organismes hypothétiques pourraient-ils ravager le monde si les biologistes parvenaient à les créer ? Faut-il interdire absolument toute recherche en ce sens ? Un collectif de trente-huit scientifiques a appelé à un débat mondial dans le journal « Science ». Revue de détail d’un scénario apocalyptique.
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn
https://www.the-scientist.com/mirror-bacteria-research-poses-significant-risks-dozens-of-scientists-warn-72419
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361
* feasibility of creating mirror bacteria
* potentially serious/wide-ranging risks they could pose to humans, animals, plants, environment
* accompanies the Science Policy Forum article titled “Confronting risks of mirror life”,
#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #MirrorBacteria #biochemistry #stereochemistry #biopolymers
Mirror life (mirror bacteria)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_life
* mirror-image life
* hypothetical form of life w. mirror-reflected molecular building blocks
* e.g. bacteria made of components that natural cells possess, but w. every biopolymer being of opp. stereochemistry
Comments:
* fascinating stuff; huge potential
* coincident w. my post re: synthetic media: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113630612921903958
* here: synthetic biology
#SyntheticBiology #MirrorLife #MirrorBacteria #biochemistry #stereochemistry #biopolymers
Stanford Digital Repository
Technical Report on #MirrorBacteria: Feasibility and Risks
https://purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
Confronting Risks of #MirrorLife:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158
#biology #biologyresearch #designerlife
#bioengineering #immunology #biodiversity #ecology #exrisk
*Hey, nice one with the more-or-less natural planet-eating Gray Goo scenario here #mirrorbacteria
https://amr.solutions/2024/12/12/mirror-bacteria-an-amr-threat-of-unprecedented-magnitude/
Dear All (wonkish but stick with it … I’m going to try very hard to de-wonk it), In an absolutely terrifying paper and technical report in today’s issue of Science, we are introduced in detail to the concept of “mirror” bacteria in which all chiral elements of the bacterium are replaced by their enantiomeric counterparts. […]
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research
Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections
#AB #ArtificialBiology #MirrorBacteria #MirrorLife #healthRisk #pandemic
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