{"id":14118,"date":"2025-08-05T04:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T04:52:28","slug":"summer-picks-what-is-mirror-life-and-why-are-scientists-sounding-the-alarm-podcast-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=14118","title":{"rendered":"Summer picks: what is \u2018mirror life\u2019 and why are scientists sounding the alarm? \u2013 podcast | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create \u2018mirror life\u2019 microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an \u2018unprecedented risk\u2019 to life on Earth. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay about why this work initially seemed exciting for scientists and what the risks of it continuing could be. Kate Adamala, assistant professor of genetics, cell biology and development at the University of Minnesota, describes what made her change her mind about pursuing her own research on mirror cells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create \u2018mirror life\u2019 microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an \u2018unprecedented risk\u2019 to life on Earth. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay about why this work initially seemed exciting for scientists and what the risks of it continuing could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[4222,337,7759,1830,515,516,384,7760,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-14118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-alarm","9":"tag-life","10":"tag-mirror","11":"tag-picks","12":"tag-podcast","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-scientists","15":"tag-sounding","16":"tag-summer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}