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Newest Discovery Moves Us One Step Closer To Making Synthetic Organisms With Reverse Biochemistry

Scientists have created a small, mirror-image enzyme capable of building mirror-image DNA, and even transcribing it into mirror-image RNA. It could be a first step toward creating life forms of an entirely opposite molecular “handedness” to natural life.

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Chirality, a Primer (Updated)

The word chirality comes from the Greek word for "handedness," as in left or right-handed. Well it turns out molecules can also have different forms that are analogous to the idea of handedness. For an example look at alanine. The figure shows two versions, or what chemists call enantiomers, of the amino acid alanine. Much like each hand has five fingers, one thumb, ect both molecules have the same number of atoms and same general chemical structure, but make no mistake these are two…

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