Many biopolymers such as DNA form helices, which are inherently chiral structures, while compounds such as amino acids form complex 3D shapes that also can have left and right forms. Researchers now ...

More than half of all modern medicines are chiral. Since biomolecules such as amino acids, sugars and proteins in our body all have the same handedness, active pharmaceutical ingredients must also ...

Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization—a ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

In the past several decades, significant progress has been made in controlling molecular chirality, as evidenced by the several Nobel Prizes in chemistry awarded in this area, particularly for ...

Thus, the biological implications of chirality demand that we improve our ability to access chiral small molecules as pure entities. Though the field of asymmetric synthesis has its roots in ...

Research suggests that calcium may have played a key role in guiding the development of a specific molecular handedness in ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a surprising twist, literally, in how molecules organize themselves. By introducing tiny leftover fragments from previous assemblies, they discovered a way to flip ...

By being the first to succeed in making an enantiomerically enriched amino acid sample by this method in the lab, wide attention has been focused on this phenomenon. Environmental multidimensional ...

This process could have amplified small imbalances in chirality, ultimately leading ... discussed in terms of biomolecules like nucleic acids and amino acids," ELSI's Specially Appointed Associate ...