— Mirror-image enzyme copies looking-glass DNA

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Pretty cool! The researchers apparently synthesized a mirror-image replica of a tiny viral polymerase using right-handed amino acids instead of the left-handed ones used by all life on earth today. I can see how this research could shed light on why life on earth all has one direction (both in DNA and amino acid usage), although I suspect it is just chance, and that reverse life may function just as well on some other planet far away.