Recently, a group of leading scientists on the world has called for the research to stop the creation of “mirror life” microbes amid fears that artificial organisms will provide an “unprecedented danger” of life on Earth. Ian Madeleine Vinley tells the reason for this work initially to scientists and what it could be the risk of continuing. And Kate Adamala, a assistant professor in genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota, describes what made her change her opinion on following her own research on mirror cells
