{"id":201454,"date":"2024-12-12T21:24:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:24:32","slug":"unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unprecedented risk\u2019 to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on \u2018mirror life\u2019 microbe research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Real life modern Frankenstein.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create \u201cmirror life\u201d microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an \u201cunprecedented risk\u201d to life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could become established in the environment and slip past the immune defences of natural organisms, putting humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real life modern Frankenstein. World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create \u201cmirror life\u201d microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an \u201cunprecedented risk\u201d to life on Earth. The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}