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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Chirality has garnered significant attention in the scientific community since its discovery by Louis Pasteur over a century ago. It has been showing a profound impact on chemical, biomedical, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, their approaches often go viral on social media, earning both praise and amusement from users. In the same vein, an ed-tech teacher in India has gone viral for his unconventional method of ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...