This Week in Evolution cover image

TWiEVO 91: Meet your very distant cousins

This Week in Evolution

00:00

The Mirror Image of Life

There's a one of my colleagues here at Utah, a biochemist called Michael K. He makes D peptides. So there's the chirality here. There's L and D. And so he's actually one of his sort of dream projects is to make D coli, where all of the amino acids are the mirror image of in all of the proteins. A life form that would be a mirror image. Can't prove or disprove. I mean, I don't hide in that. But maybe if you've got enough numbers, it overcomes that.

Play episode from 01:15:55
Transcript

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app