Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By ...

Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

A recent study has presented a new strategy for controlling the chirality—the property where a molecule has non-superimposable mirror images—of mechanically interlocked molecules (MIMs) like ...

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This ...

Scientists call this chirality, and the mirror-like property is fundamental to all life on Earth. DNA and RNA—life’s genetic molecules, from viruses to humans—are made of components that exist in ...

Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apart. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 25, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 10 / 191028164349.htm.

Nature's mirror -- the code for chirality. Newcastle University. Journal Nature Chemistry DOI 10.1038/NCHEM.2449 ...

Amino acids, which make up proteins, or nucleotides, which make up DNA and RNA, are the same way. Chirality in molecules means they have a specific orientation in space such that the mirror image ...

For example fat molecules are not chiral. To live, this “mirror” bacterium would need to be able to metabolize fats. Incidentally our brains are 60% fat. So, a brain eating, ...

Sometimes the difference between life-saving drug and deadly side effect is chirality. L-DOPA is the best drug we have for Parkinson’s disease. If you take L-DOPA and reflect it in a mirror, you ...