>>16536482
>What's to stop some terrorist group
you'd have to synthesize mirror image amino acids without enzymes, and then synthesize and fold mirror image enzymes without chaperones, and then you'd have to make protein complexes without enzymes and chaperones, and enzymes without relevant enzymes that are used in their biosynthesis pathway, and then you'd have to account for nonprotein chiral molecules, like metabolites, make a proper growth medium that couldn't be obtained from grinding meat into a paste or extracting sugars because you need the mirror image sugars, aminoacids and vitamins. All that while trying to prevent your fresh proteins from degrading, because not all off them are stable, and most o them aren't yet folded properly since you lack the means to fold them. And not only to assemble all the pieces together. I wonder, does one first assemble the mitochondrial prepeptide porting machinery and get ready to jumpstart oxidative phosphorylation or do you assemble the mirror image genome into viable topological domains in your DIY nucleus with mirror image pore complexes.

So I guess 100 trillion hours of laboratory work by a team of 100 thousand chemists is good enough safety measure

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