Chiralpedia

Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart
News Release: July 28, 2026 Source : sciencedaily.com
Optical Sorting Breakthroughs in Chiral Particle Detection
News Release: Jun 19, 2026 Source : miragenews.com
Enhanced chiral discrimination in mass spectrometry with orbital angular momentum beams
News Release: Jun 5, 2026 Source : science.org
Are we closer to understanding the origins of biological homochirality?
News Release: May 21, 2026 Source : acs.org
Light can twist into chiral states without lenses or surfaces
News Release: May 15, 2026 Source : analyticalscience.wiley.com
Scientists discover surprising new way to control light
News Release: May 12, 2026 Source : wits.ac.za
Harvard engineers build chip that can twist and control light in real time
News Release: March 21, 2026 Source : sciencedaily.com
Scientists harness nature's chirality bias to design series of complex mechanically interlocked molecules
News Release: February 9, 2026 Source : phys.org
Amino acids weave organic molecules into chiral knots
News Release: February 3, 2026 Source : chemistryworld.com
From dark days of HIV-AIDS, advances in aza-sulfur chemistry enable breakthrough treatment—and other chemical innovations
News Release: January 26, 2026 Source : chem.yale.edu
Deadly 'reverse' cells can destroy us unless scientists stop them
News Release: January 20, 2026 Source : scientificamerican.com

How chirality goes from the molecular level to the cellular one
News Release: December 22, 2025 Source : phys.org
Stable nitrogen chiral centres are possible – under the right conditions
News Release: November 18, 2025 Source : chemistryworld.com
Discovery of a new principle: Chiral molecules adhere to magnets
News Release: October 29, 2025 Source : phys.org
How stereo-correct data can de-risk AI-driven drug discovery
News Release: October 15, 2025 Source : drugdiscoverytrends.com
Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies
News Release: October 14, 2025 Source : chemistryworld.com
Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry
News Release: August 14, 2025 Source : phys.org
How Nature’s Symmetry Might Help Us See Early Warning Signs of Cancer
News Release: July 30, 2025 Source : nist.gov
Chirality shock: Geneva chemists forge millennia-stable 'mirror-proof' drugs
News Release: July 15, 2025 Source : sciencedaily.com
Mirror Bacteria: Reflecting on Alternate Chirality
News Release: May 23, 2025 Source : asm.org
NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
News Release: February 02, 2025 Source : yahoo.com

Debunked dogma: disordered proteins disregard ligands’ chirality
News Release: December 18, 2024 Source : chemistryworld.com
Creating 'Mirror Life' Could Be Disastrous, Scientists Warn
News Release: December 14, 2024 Source : scientificamerican.com
Confronting risks of mirror life | Science
Source : science.org

eLetter
News Release: December 12, 2024 Source : science.org
The Cosmic Coin Toss: How Chirality Shaped Life’s Genetic Code
News Release: December 2, 2024 Source : scitechdaily.com
A Breakthrough in Chiral Capsule Tools for Advanced Optical Technologies
News Release: October 7, 2024 Source : isct.ac.jp
Hidden Patterns Show Nobel Prize Science Trends
News Release: September 17, 2024 Source : scientificamerican.com
'Fussy' molecules prefer one direction over the other, chiral copolymer study finds
News Release: September 12, 2024 Source : phys.org
A Breakthrough in Chiral Molecule Research Opens New Horizons for Science
News Release: August 29, 2024 Source : fhi.mpg.de
New 'chiral vortex' of light allows chemists to 'see' molecules through the mirror
News Release: August 23, 2024 Source : phys.org
Breakthrough in molecular control: New bioinspired double helix with switchable chirality
News Release: August 23, 2024 Source : phys.org
New method for simultaneous high-resolution measurement of chiral molecules
News Release: July 15, 2024 Source : phys.org
Inherent Chirality at work in Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis
News Release: 2024 Source : sites.unimi.it
Telling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses
News Release: April 8, 2024 Source : chemistryworld.com
First mirror-image cyclodextrins come together ‘like Lego’
News Release: April 05, 2024 Source : chemistryworld.com
Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? Exploring the causes of chirality
News Release: March 22, 2024 Source : phys.org
How molecular 'handedness' emerged in early biology
News Release: February 28, 2024 Source : sciencedaily.com
AI and Machine Learning Revolutionize Computational Chemistry, From Quantum Chemistry to machine learning and back
News Release: February 19, 2024 Source : quantumzeitgeist.com
Observing Chirality
News Release: February 6, 2024 Source : entropix.co.uk
Researchers report successful synthesis of specific chiral molecules using rearrangements of simple hydrocarbons
News Release: January 10, 2024 Source : phys.org
Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to 'chiral' fluids
News Release: January 08, 2024 Source : phys.org

Molecular handedness controls spin
News Release: October 19, 2023 Source : cen.acs.org
Chiral detection of molecules gets a laser-driven boost
News Release: October 03, 2023 Source : physicsworld.com
A new way to identify chiral molecules with light could vastly improve detection efficiency
News Release: August 18, 2023 Source : phys.org
Organocatalysis: Reflecting on Two Decades of Innovation
News Release: July 7, 2023 Source : jakemp.com
For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen
News Release: May 17, 2023 Source : nature.com
'Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed
News Release: June 13, 2023 Source : science.org
"Mirror-Image" Molecules Open the Door to Better Cancer Treatments
SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE MAY 2, 2023 Source : scitechdaily.com
'Dynamic bonds' reshape the rules of aromaticity and chirality
News Release: March 24, 2023 Source : chemistryworld.com
This new molecule owes its chirality to oxygen alone
News Release: March 19, 2023 Source : cen.acs.org
Scientists interconvert mirror-image molecules
News Release: March 13, 2023 Source : durham.ac.uk
’Photoredox catalysis goes asymmetric’: counterion strategy a breakthrough in reaction control
News Release: January 31, 2023 Source : chemistryworld.com
Distinguishing between right and left with magnets
News Release: January 18, 2023 Source : phys.org

Light can be used to control molecular handedness
News Release: December 13, 2023 Source : phys.org
Taking inspiration from nature to make molecules like nature does
News Release: December 12 2022 Source : caltech.edu
Gigantic database of building blocks will help artificial intelligence uncover new organocatalysts
News Release: November 21 2022 Source : chemistryworld.com
Researchers reveal structure and function of a molecular motor
News Release: Aug 26, 2022 Source : phys.org
Helical light tells chiral molecules apart
News Release: Aug 05, 2022 Source : physicsworld.com
Many drugs have mirror image chemical structures – while one may be helpful, the other may be harmful
News Release: Aug 03, 2022 Source : theconversation.com
Catalysis Is One of the Most Important Technologies for Mankind – And We’re Just Getting Started With It
News Release: June 30, 2022 Source : lindau-nobel.org
The Key to Chirality
News Release: May 10, 2022 Source : theanalyticalscientist.com
A nose for damaged plants and fake perfumes
News Release: June 25, 2022 Source : mpg.de
Spin-controlling materials team win prestigious Horizon Prize
News Release: June 07, 2022 Source : imperial.ac.uk
Is there asymmetry in nature?
News Release: May 11, 2022 Source : cosmosmagazine.com
Metamaterial significantly enhances chiral nanoparticle signals
News Release: May 3, 2022 Source : phys.org
Life’s chemistry goes through the looking glass
News Release: May 3, 2022 Source : chemistryworld.com
Controlling chemical mirror images
News Release: April 29, 2022 Source : phys.org
How asymmetry could make better vaccines
News Release: April 20, 2022 Source : cosmosmagazine.com
A biological motor that consumes chiral fuel drives rotation in one direction around a single covalent bond
News Release: April 20, 2022 Source : phys.org
Chiral gold nanoparticles increase vaccine efficacy by more than 25%, study suggests
News Release: April 18, 2022 Source : phys.org
Evolutionary scientists find symmetry in nature, and beauty in simplicity
News Release: March 14, 2022 Source : fastcompany.com
Is there asymmetry in nature?
News Release: March 11, 2022 Source : cosmosmagazine.com
Changing the handedness of molecules
News Release: March 9, 2022 Source : eurekalert.org
We exist thanks to chirality and the asymmetry of life
News Release: Feb 23, 2022 Source : bigthink.com
Symmetry is beautiful, but asymmetry is why the Universe and life exist
News Release: Feb 09, 2022 Source : bigthink.com
Cell Chirality Offers Clues to the Mystery of Body Asymmetry
News Release: Feb 01, 2022 Source : the-scientist.com
Twisted light from semiconducting nanohelices could speed drug discovery
News Release: Jan 24, 2022 Source : physicsworld.com

News on chirality
Source : chemeurope.com
Taking some of the guesswork out of drug discovery
News Release: December 6, 2021 Source : news.mit.edu
The Right Chemistry: Reflecting on mirror-image molecules
News Release: November 12, 2021 Source : montrealgazette.com
Nobel Prize for simple but brilliant discovery of asymmetric organocatalysis
News Release: October 28, 2021 Source : journosdiary.com
How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize
News Release: October 15, 2021 Source : chemistryworld.com
Mirror's Image: Could a Simple Flip Produce a More Effective Ketamine-Based Antidepressant?
News release: April 12, 2021 Source : technologynetworks.com
Breakthrough in organic chemistry: Asymmetric syntheses of useful, unique chiral compounds
News Release: February 16, 2021 Source : phys.org
Diamond celebrates 10,000th paper – A breakthrough in chiral polymer thin films research
News Release: January 1, 2021 Source : diamond.ac.uk

New, ultrastable tetrahedral "chiral zinc" added to synthetic chemistry toolbox Catalyst with chirality at the zinc center could be useful for drug, electronic manufacturing
News Release: December 15, 2020 Source : eurekalert.org
Nature through the looking glass
News Release: September 22, 2020 Source : symmetrymagazine.org
Discovery of naturally chiral surfaces for safer pharmaceuticals
News Release: August 8, 2020 Source : engineering.cmu.edu
Researchers access both enantiomers by varying reaction time
News Release: June 30, 2020 Source : phys.org
Using magnets to separate chiral molecules
Source : rsc.org
Scientists propose strategy for site-selective chiral drug synthesis in living systems
News Release : June 26, 2020 Source : phys.org
Scientists eliminate drug side effects by manipulating molecular chirality
News Release: May 19, 2020 Source : phys.org
Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided
News Release: April 15, 2020 Source : newscientist.com
Mechanical chirality gives new shape to catalysis
News Release : March 15, 2020 Source : cen.acs.org
Research uncovers a new way of making chiral catalysts
News Release: March 9, 2020 Source : eurekalert.org

Using corkscrew lasers to separate chiral molecules
News Release: December 17, 2019 Source : phys.org
Observing changes in the chirality of molecules in real time
News Release: November 14, 2019 Source : phys.org
Multi-state switchable stationary phase opens new doors in chiral separation
News Release: July 31, 2019 Source : phys.org
Magnets on hand for separating chiral crystals
News Release: May 1, 2019 Source : chemistryworld.com
Nat Cell Bio: “Mirror” Synthetic Biology Technology to Improve the Therapeutic Effect of Antibody Molecules
News Release: March 25, 2019 Source : creative-biolabs.com
Chirality inversion in a helical molecule at controlled speeds
News Release: February 6, 2019 Source : phys.org
Chirality measurements speed up
News Release: January 21, 2019 Source : physicsworld.com
Chiral curiosities
News Release: January 9, 2019 Source : chemistryworld.com

Divide and conquer: A key to creating better medicines with fewer side effects
News release: May 14, 2018 Source : chemeurope.com
Magnetic fields could fish out enantiomers
News release: May 11, 2018 Source : cen.acs.org
A new toolset for studying chirality at the single molecule level
News release: June 20, 2018 Source : communities.springernature.com

The three pillars of asymmetric catalysis
News Release: December 03, 2017 Source : remotecat.blogspot.com
Teaching Life a New Trick: Bacteria Make Boron-Carbon Bonds
News Release: November 29, 2017 Source : sustainability.caltech.edu
Chiral crabs
News Release: September 22, 2017 Source : phys.org
New Porous Solids May Lead to Better Drugs
News Release: May 01, 2017 Source : caltech.edu

Right Hand, Left Hand, Either Hand
News Release: September 28, 2016 Source : science.org
Must the Molecules of Life Always be Left-Handed or Right-Handed?
News Release: July 28, 2016 Source : smithsonianmag.com
First detection of chiral molecule in space
News Release: June 15, 2016 Source : chemistryworld.com

The origin of homochirality
News Release : October 26, 2015 Source : chemistryworld.com
Sniffing Out Chirality
News Release : Februray 20, 2015 Source : theanalyticalscientist.com

New Twist Found in the Story of Life’s Start
News Release : November 26, 2014 Source : quantamagazine.org
Synthetic Biology: The Next Frontier in Chiral Chemistry for API Synthesis
News Release: March 2, 2014 Source : pharmtech.com

Snapshots differentiate molecules from their mirror image
News Release: November 29, 2013 Source : phys.org
Microwaves show their hand
News Release: May 24, 2013 Source : chemistryworld.com

Molecular control earns Nobel
News Release : October 10, 2001 Source : news.bbc.co.uk
Chemical 'Handedness' Garners Big Applause
News Release : October 10, 2001 Source : science.org

Chirality and Drug Development
News Release : July 10, 1992 Source : science.org

'Mirror Image' Chemistry Yielding New Products
News Release : Aug 13, 1991 Source : nytimes.com

Chiralpedia

News

Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart

Optical Sorting Breakthroughs in Chiral Particle Detection

Enhanced chiral discrimination in mass spectrometry with orbital angular momentum beams

Are we closer to understanding the origins of biological homochirality?

Light can twist into chiral states without lenses or surfaces

Scientists discover surprising new way to control light

Harvard engineers build chip that can twist and control light in real time

Scientists harness nature's chirality bias to design series of complex mechanically interlocked molecules

Amino acids weave organic molecules into chiral knots

From dark days of HIV-AIDS, advances in aza-sulfur chemistry enable breakthrough treatment—and other chemical innovations

Deadly 'reverse' cells can destroy us unless scientists stop them

How chirality goes from the molecular level to the cellular one

Stable nitrogen chiral centres are possible – under the right conditions

Discovery of a new principle: Chiral molecules adhere to magnets

How stereo-correct data can de-risk AI-driven drug discovery

Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies

Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry

How Nature’s Symmetry Might Help Us See Early Warning Signs of Cancer

Chirality shock: Geneva chemists forge millennia-stable 'mirror-proof' drugs

Mirror Bacteria: Reflecting on Alternate Chirality

NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"

Debunked dogma: disordered proteins disregard ligands’ chirality

Creating 'Mirror Life' Could Be Disastrous, Scientists Warn

Confronting risks of mirror life | Science

eLetter

The Cosmic Coin Toss: How Chirality Shaped Life’s Genetic Code

A Breakthrough in Chiral Capsule Tools for Advanced Optical Technologies

Hidden Patterns Show Nobel Prize Science Trends

'Fussy' molecules prefer one direction over the other, chiral copolymer study finds

A Breakthrough in Chiral Molecule Research Opens New Horizons for Science

New 'chiral vortex' of light allows chemists to 'see' molecules through the mirror

Breakthrough in molecular control: New bioinspired double helix with switchable chirality

New method for simultaneous high-resolution measurement of chiral molecules

Inherent Chirality at work in Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis

Telling left from right: chirality detection faces up to its weaknesses

First mirror-image cyclodextrins come together ‘like Lego’

Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? Exploring the causes of chirality

How molecular 'handedness' emerged in early biology

AI and Machine Learning Revolutionize Computational Chemistry, From Quantum Chemistry to machine learning and back

Observing Chirality

Researchers report successful synthesis of specific chiral molecules using rearrangements of simple hydrocarbons

Stripes in a flowing liquid crystal suggest a route to 'chiral' fluids

Molecular handedness controls spin

Chiral detection of molecules gets a laser-driven boost

A new way to identify chiral molecules with light could vastly improve detection efficiency

Organocatalysis: Reflecting on Two Decades of Innovation

For chemists, the AI revolution has yet to happen

'Breakthrough’ could explain why life molecules are left- or right-handed

"Mirror-Image" Molecules Open the Door to Better Cancer Treatments

'Dynamic bonds' reshape the rules of aromaticity and chirality

This new molecule owes its chirality to oxygen alone

Scientists interconvert mirror-image molecules

’Photoredox catalysis goes asymmetric’: counterion strategy a breakthrough in reaction control

Distinguishing between right and left with magnets

Light can be used to control molecular handedness

Taking inspiration from nature to make molecules like nature does

Gigantic database of building blocks will help artificial intelligence uncover new organocatalysts

Researchers reveal structure and function of a molecular motor

Helical light tells chiral molecules apart

Many drugs have mirror image chemical structures – while one may be helpful, the other may be harmful

Catalysis Is One of the Most Important Technologies for Mankind – And We’re Just Getting Started With It

The Key to Chirality

A nose for damaged plants and fake perfumes

Spin-controlling materials team win prestigious Horizon Prize

Is there asymmetry in nature?

Metamaterial significantly enhances chiral nanoparticle signals

Life’s chemistry goes through the looking glass

Controlling chemical mirror images

How asymmetry could make better vaccines

A biological motor that consumes chiral fuel drives rotation in one direction around a single covalent bond

Chiral gold nanoparticles increase vaccine efficacy by more than 25%, study suggests

Evolutionary scientists find symmetry in nature, and beauty in simplicity

Is there asymmetry in nature?

Changing the handedness of molecules

We exist thanks to chirality and the asymmetry of life

Symmetry is beautiful, but asymmetry is why the Universe and life exist

Cell Chirality Offers Clues to the Mystery of Body Asymmetry

Twisted light from semiconducting nanohelices could speed drug discovery