A new study has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life’s earliest molecular structures, shedding light on ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a ...

Many biopolymers such as DNA form helices, which are inherently chiral structures, while compounds such as amino acids form complex 3D shapes that also can have left and right forms. Researchers now ...

The work is published in the journal eLight. Chirality refers to the "handedness" of a molecule, like a left and right hand. Many biological molecules are chiral, and their handedness can be ...

Chirality is a term that refers to a property ... Chromophores are parts of a molecule responsible for its color. They absorb light at specific wavelengths, which corresponds to certain colors ...

The phenomenon is called chirality, and the molecules that have this property are called chiral molecules. For the latter ones, this means that the left-handed and the right-handed molecules, also ...

Blood glucose is usually measured using invasive methods involving pricking small needles into the skin. But people suffering ...

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 ...

The characterization of chiral aggregates by CD is also not trivial, and finding the origin of optical activity is often a thorny problem: Does the signal come from the molecule or the aggregate?

The direction of a molecule is called its chirality, and this direction determines its structure and function. In nature, "DNA and RNA are made from 'right-handed' nucleotides, and proteins are ...