Marc Güell
Coordinator of the Translational Synthetic Biology research group and full professor at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
It is a very interesting reflection that includes some experts with decades of experience in working with this problem.
Certainly, the generation of asymmetric life raises fascinating questions: Why was this asymmetry chosen? What is the degree of orthogonality between lives that are mirror images of each other?
It is possible that life with the new symmetry has the ability to escape the main defence mechanisms and may be a danger. Especially since bacteria can grow from non-chiral elements.
It is true that, although it seems so far away to have a specular whole bacterium, perhaps it is not so far away to have specular components in bacteria.