Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel-winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation at 07 Oct, 19:54 UTC

From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.

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• T1Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel-winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demandMIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation07 Oct, 19:54