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

Debunked dogma: disordered proteins disregard ligands’ chirality

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

News on chirality

Taking some of the guesswork out of drug discovery

The Right Chemistry: Reflecting on mirror-image molecules

Nobel Prize for simple but brilliant discovery of asymmetric organocatalysis

How organocatalysis won the Nobel prize

Mirror's Image: Could a Simple Flip Produce a More Effective Ketamine-Based Antidepressant?

Breakthrough in organic chemistry: Asymmetric syntheses of useful, unique chiral compounds

Diamond celebrates 10,000th paper – A breakthrough in chiral polymer thin films research

New, ultrastable tetrahedral "chiral zinc" added to synthetic chemistry toolbox Catalyst with chirality at the zinc center could be useful for drug, electronic manufacturing

Nature through the looking glass

Discovery of naturally chiral surfaces for safer pharmaceuticals

Researchers access both enantiomers by varying reaction time

Using magnets to separate chiral molecules

Scientists propose strategy for site-selective chiral drug synthesis in living systems

Scientists eliminate drug side effects by manipulating molecular chirality

Life's other mystery: Why biology's building blocks are so lop-sided

Mechanical chirality gives new shape to catalysis

Research uncovers a new way of making chiral catalysts

Using corkscrew lasers to separate chiral molecules

Observing changes in the chirality of molecules in real time

Multi-state switchable stationary phase opens new doors in chiral separation