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Mark Pesce

Didn't @gregeganSF write an SF novel which had a subplot of a bunch of billionaires trying to use 'Mirror Life' to make themselves... immune to the petty concerns of mere mortals?

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

Greg Egan

@mpesce Not mirror life, but an alternative chemistry for the DNA bases. (People really have synthesised those alternative bases, but as with mirror DNA, they’re a long, long way from being able to build a whole organism that uses them.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeno_nuc

en.wikipedia.orgXeno nucleic acid - Wikipedia
Dec 16, 2024, 11:11 PM·Public·Web
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Mark Pesce

@gregeganSF ah yes sorry, same idea, different scaffold ;)

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