Mirror molecules claim Chemistry Nobel

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Experiments showing how life may have ended up ‘one-handed’ have won Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Chiral or ‘mirror image’ molecules such as DNA and amino acids all exist in only one form: ‘left-handed’ for amino acids and ‘right-handed’ for DNA. Kagan in the 1980s and Soai in the 1990s showed how that single-handedness could have arisen. Read more here:…

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