Mirror cells, if created, would probably multiply in a host organism without much resistance.
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- Some scientists trying to create "mirror life" have stopped in their tracks.
- A mirror microorganism could end up being a major pathogen since our immune systems wouldn't notice it.
- Mirror-image biology inverts a fundamental property of life on Earth: which way molecules point.
Creating "mirror life" could be one of science's greatest breakthroughs...