{"product_id":"mirror-life-thomas-s-sterling-9798235093867","title":"Mirror Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if the most dangerous organism on Earth doesn't exist yet - but could be built in a laboratory by next Tuesday?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt would be invisible to every antibiotic ever made. Your immune system would not recognize it. Your body's enzymes couldn't touch it. And it would look, under a microscope, almost exactly like ordinary bacteria.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not science fiction. This is the science of mirror life - and the race to build it is already underway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMirror Life\u003c\/em\u003e takes you inside one of the most extraordinary and underreported scientific revolutions of the 21st century: the quest to create life built from mirror-image molecules. Every protein in your body twists to the left. Every strand of your DNA spirals to the right. These are four-billion-year-old commitments that the entire biosphere shares - and that a small, brilliant, globally dispersed community of chemists is now learning to reverse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe implications are world-altering in two directions simultaneously. Mirror molecules are today being developed as the next generation of cancer drugs - protease-resistant, immune-evasion-proof, capable of reaching targets that conventional medicine cannot touch. And mirror organisms, if ever released from a laboratory, would represent a threat for which humanity has no prepared response whatsoever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the propulsive clarity of the best science journalism and grounded in cutting-edge peer-reviewed research published as recently as 2025, \u003cem\u003eMirror Life\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive account of this emerging field. You will understand why Louis Pasteur's 1848 discovery of molecular handedness was the quiet foundation of a revolution still unfolding. You will follow the scientists synthesizing mirror proteins atom by atom. You will grasp why a mirror cancer drug could outlast every treatment in your body - and why a mirror bacterium could outlast every treatment in your hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will also understand why the best minds in biosafety are already losing sleep over a question Lewis Carroll posed as a children's riddle: \u003cem\u003eWhat happens if the looking-glass world gets out?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever read \u003cem\u003eThe Hot Zone\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Gene\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Nearly Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and wanted more - wanted the science newer, the stakes higher, the prose sharper - \u003cem\u003eMirror Life\u003c\/em\u003e is the book you have been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sterling Science Series Book 1\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas S. Sterling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235093867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas S. Sterling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Thomas S. Sterling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002356867327,"sku":"9798235093867","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mirror-life-thomas-s-sterling-9798235093867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}