Imagine a world where life doesn’t rely on the same DNA and proteins as all living organisms on Earth. Instead, it’s a ...

Scientists have been engineering “mirror life” by changing the chirality of life’s building blocks. Now, it's time to set ...

The sophisticated chiral structures of proteins usually mean they can only interact with ligands with a complementary chirality. Now, researchers have observed that disorganised proteins and peptides ...

In this work, we present the discovery of a novel type of chirality—staircase chirality as inspired by the design and synthesis of unnatural amino acid derivatives. The architecture of staircase ...

Key Laboratory of Jiangxi Province for Persistent Pollutants Control and Resources Recycle, Nanchang Hang Kong University, Nanchang 330063, P. R. China ...

Key Laboratory of Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Smart Systems, Suzhou institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Suzhou 215123, China ...

THE non-enzymatic asymmetric synthesis of α-amino-acids has long been of considerable stereochemical interest. However, the method of catalytic hydrogenation is the only one appearing in the ...

Natural life is characterized by specific molecular chirality, with ribonucleic acid (RNA), deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), and proteins being composed of specific enantiomers. Advances in synthetic ...

Amino acids can exist in right and left-handed configurations ... The team evaluated proposals like creating mirrored phages and chiral antibiotics, but these were deemed insufficient.

Upon reflection… A group of scientists have warned against the development of mirror bacteria in a report published in the ...