(Wired) – Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances.

Some molecules are chiral, meaning a molecule has two forms that are mirror images of each other but not identical, like your left and right hand. One of the most mysterious chemical phenomena in biology is that living organisms contain almost exclusively one of the two forms. This is known as homochirality. (Read More)