By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile ...

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

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 ...

March 15, 2006 (Vol. 26, No. 6) The recognition of chirality in bioactive molecules is as old as modern organic chemistry itself. Pioneering work by Jean-Baptiste Biot, Louis Pasteur, Emil Fischer ...

In our high school chemistry classes we all learn about chirality, the property of organic molecules in which two chemically identical molecules can have different structures that are mirror images… ...

Although chiral structures are chemically identical, they cannot be rotated into one another—similar to our right and left hands. This property is particularly important in the pharmaceutical ...

Chirality is Just Turtles All the Way Down. Season 10 Episode 8 | 12m 2s Video has Closed Captions | CC. L-DOPA is the best drug we have for Parkinson’s disease. If you take L-DOPA and reflect ...

Chiral Chemistry Aids Drug Development November 15, 2005. By Gail Dutton . November 15, 2005 (Vol. 25, No. 20) Fewer Side Effects Are One Benefit of Enhancements of this Technology. Chiral ...

Over and over, biochemists have found that when living cells use chiral molecules, they use one chirality exclusively. The sugars that make up DNA, for example, are all right-handed. The amino ...

Chiral molecules are an essential building block of life. They are ubiquitous on Earth and in some comets / asteroids, but scientists have never observed them in interstellar space. Until now.