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Mirror life — synthetic organisms built from molecules with reversed chirality, the opposite handedness of every natural protein and DNA strand on Earth — would be essentially invisible to the… READ THE REST

A newly described spider in North Queensland rainforest hunts exactly one prey species — the green tree ant, an insect so aggressive most predators avoid it — by building a… READ THE REST

A synthetic cell built from scratch — no living components, just liposomes, DNA, and 36 commercial enzymes standing in for protein synthesis — grew, copied its own DNA, and split… READ THE REST

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