im actually kind of shaken about this. getting all the way to mirror cyanobacteria is quite a few steps ahead of where we are but it seems like things are moving very quickly.
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meh maybe but think of the flipside! make L-viruses in the lab and study them, nbd if escape
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on one hand that is convenient but on the other hand I mean we can live with viruses you know it does seem like there are some mechanisms that might prevent the Bad Outcome but I wouldnt want to rely on that
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ok not saying it wouldnt be catastrophic but someone who can engineer L Cyanobacteria can also make its natural predator bacterium and then it’ll be brave new world
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Replying to @tszzl @eigenrobot and
There was an old lady who swallowed a mirror fly...
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I wonder if we could at least design some L-amino acid-based proteins that break down mirror molecules, stick their genes in plasmids, and seed the oceans
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Replying to @eigenrobot @noahzsolomon and
now we gotta worry about L-plasmid replicators
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wait how do you mean? this would be a normal D-DNA plasmid that produces normal L-amino acid proteins that just happen to function on mirror glucose or whatever
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Replying to @eigenrobot @noahzsolomon and
is there a way to do that with the tools we have so far? I thought it’s path dependent but maybe if you engineer some special ribosomal proteins that are able to make the mirror image proteins of the mRNA…
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eigenrobot Retweeted Richard Bibeault
apparently there already exists a naturally-occurring enzyme that acts on L-glucose specifically but I just had a better idea mirror cyanophageshttps://twitter.com/Duderichy/status/1420975530208202756?s=19 …
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could back that up with a protocol to make sure any synthetic mirror organisms die without some unusual substance provisioned in the lab just deny them some ability to synthesize an essential molecule and provide it in solution
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Replying to @eigenrobot @tszzl and
someone would inevitably cut corners I guess but it would help
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