There's the key point which I would not have guessed.  But I still wonder if left handed E. coli can thrive in right handed world.  The number of E. coli in a human gut is not regulated primarily by the immune system, but by competition with other bacteria.

Brent

On 4/6/2025 5:01 AM, John Clark wrote:
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*And we know from experiments that Escherichia coli can grow very quickly in an environment that only contains molecules that look the same in a mirror, that is to say in an environment without chiral nutrients, if there is nothing like an immune system to keep the numbers down.*

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