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Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making the mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated. By Stephen Ornes For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered down at a conference center in Northern Virginia to brainstorm high-risk, cutting- edge, irresistibly exciting ideas that the National Science Foundation should fund. By the end of the meeting, they’d landed on a compelling contender: making “mir- ror” bacteria. Should they come to be, the lab-created microbes would be structured and organized like ordinary bacteria, with one important exception: Key biological molecules like proteins, sugars, and lip- ids would be the mirror images of those found in nature. …
摘自《麻省理工科技评论》(MIT Technology Review)第129卷 第3期 · 2026年5月刊,Stephen Ornes。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。