Researchers explore the idea that molecular patterns in individual cells could underlie the development of a left and a right in animals. Leo Wan’s cultured mouse cells didn’t look right. Or rather, ...

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

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 ...

To do this, they took a very special molecule, one that easily changes its handedness at room temperature—something that most chiral molecules practically never do.

Chirality refers to the "handedness" of a molecule, like a left and right hand. Many biological molecules are chiral, and their handedness can be crucial in their function.

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

The UCF-developed plasmonic technology, shown here, significantly improves the detection of the chirality of molecules, meeting a crucial demand in the field of medical and pharmaceutical research.

In further research, computational models could be used to find the best chirality for each molecule that is measured.

Nature is not symmetrical at least at the molecular level. Pasteur was one of the first to spot this in the asymmetry of tiny crystals of tartaric acid salts. The DNA double helix tends to spiral only ...