"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious, and ...

Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views. Prohibiting the creation of molecules ...

Synthetic biologists were tantalized by the idea of making mirror images of microbes. Then things got complicated. For four days in February 2019, some 30 synthetic biologists and ethicists hunkered ...