Potentially catastrophic risks to life as we know it have prompted dozens of eminent scientists to hit the brakes on their ...

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 ...

Amman / PNN /In the heart of the Holy Land, where the echoes of prophets and saints still resonate, lies Jordan-a timeless ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...