Same with alpha helices, the building blocks of proteins. Chirality, or handedness, is everywhere in biology, but the reasons can be a mystery. Greg Huber, a biophysicist and researcher at the ...

Experts sounded an alarm about the potentially lethal risks of creating mirror bacteria, synthetic organisms in which the molecular structure found in nature is reversed.

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 ...

“Mirror bacteria” could evade people’s immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also lead to a substantial proportion of plant and animal species being displaced, ...

"This form of life has never existed or evolved." Researchers issue stark warning over potentially deadly 'mirror bacteria': ...

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 ...

Left and right circularly polarized light, where the electromagnetic waves spiral in a clockwise and counterclockwise manner ...

Both results make use of chirality — a structural design that does not show mirror symmetry. Some naturally occurring materials, such as milk or sugar solutions, have extremely weak chirality.

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York's Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses ...

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in the construction of dynamic supramolecular snub cubes according to Tianjin University a participant ...

A team of physicists led by The City College of New York’s Lia Krusin-Elbaum has developed a novel technique that uses ...