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Changing humans to their mirror image versions to become immune to infectious diseases

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If we could replace DNA, RNA and the ribosomes in our cells by their mirror image versions, then everything would work in the same way, except that the chirality of all molecules would have been inverted. We may be able to do this in a fertilized egg and use artificial incubators where the growing embryo would receive the right nutrients. For example D-glucose must be replaced by L-glucose. To feed the population we must then create the mirror image versions of plants and some bacteria involved in nitrogen fixation.

A population of mirror image people would then be immune to infectious diseases. The question is if this is something we may be able to do in the near future, say within a century.

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