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Chiral life concept is an idea to recreate some well known forms of life into their mirror-reflected versions (in molecular sense).
Such organisms should be highly incompatible with existing microbes (viruses, bacterias) - this sterility should hypothetically allow to precisely recreate ecosystem bottom-up, for example to create earth ecosystem without diseases or effective ecosystems for other planets.

  • Discussion on SF writer Greg Bear's blog [1]
  • Discussion on scienceforum [2]