On the other side of the mirror: exploring the "life" of chiral molecules
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Our bodies are made of many chiral structures, left- or right-handed. Among these are, for example, left-handed amino acids, or the right-handed DNA helix. But what would life be like if the chirality of the structures our bodies are made of were reversed? If a living organism suddenly found itself on the other side of the mirror? What would life look like then. To answer such a question, the behavior of chiral molecules on the scale of a single molecule is being studied by scientists from the University of Lodz.

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