{"id":2195,"date":"2025-10-01T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:20:38","slug":"artificial-cells-valuable-niche-in-medicine-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2025\/10\/01\/artificial-cells-valuable-niche-in-medicine-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The potential benefits and risks of developing &#8220;mirror life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Future Tense podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/futuretense\/the-potential-benefits-and-risks-of-developing-mirror-life\/105446114\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The potential benefits and risks of developing &#8220;mirror life&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synthetic biologists are hard at work developing artificial biological molecules as the first step toward developing a mirror cell that would be immune from infection. If they&#8217;re successful, it could transform the world of medicine. <br \/>\nBut while the potential of mirror life is great, so too are the risks. There are warnings of a catastrophic impact if the cells can&#8217;t be controlled. And that&#8217;s prompted calls for a moratorium on the research.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future Tense podcasts: The potential benefits and risks of developing &#8220;mirror life&#8221; Synthetic biologists are hard at work developing artificial biological molecules as the first step toward developing a mirror cell that would be immune from infection. If they&#8217;re successful, it could transform the world of medicine. But while the potential of mirror life is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/2025\/10\/01\/artificial-cells-valuable-niche-in-medicine-2-2-2-2-2-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The potential benefits and risks of developing &#8220;mirror life&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-popsci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protobiology.org\/wp3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}