Sentences with phrase «chemical handedness»
They are thinking about making humans with reverse chemical handedness.
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Life seems to prefer molecules of a single chemical handedness, however.
Not exact matches
For instance, all living things exclusively use the right - handed form of the sugar ribose (the backbone of DNA), and many chiral pharmaceutical chemicals are only effective in one handedness; in the other, they can be toxic.
The second case study was similar to the first, but involved predicting the «handedness» of chemicals made when a catalyst was used to convert a double carbon - carbon bond to a single carbon - carbon bond in a chemical named diarylalkene.