A research team based in Bochum and Mülheim is using a new type of salt to specifically produce one of two possible mirror-image molecules. In scenarios where two mirror-image molecules are ...

There are certain molecules that exist twice, so to speak: as themselves and as their mirror image. "These so-called chiral molecules demonstrate a handedness of sorts," explains Stefan Huber ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

The phenomenon is called chirality, and the molecules that have this property are called chiral molecules. For the latter ones, this means that the left-handed and the right-handed molecules, also ...

Many of the undesirable reactions that mirror cells avoid depend on sensing and reacting with chiral molecules. Therefore, cells made up of mirror molecules would simply not interact with most normal ...

Why are all living beings on Earth made with the same versions of certain molecules and not their mirror images? This is the ...

"Driven by curiosity and plausible applications," researchers have "begun work toward creating lifeforms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules," also known as mirror life.

with key biomolecules utilising only one of two possible mirror-image – or chiral – forms, arose from random “experiments” in which prebiotic molecules became self-replicating and able to ...