Chirality and Life

  • Barron L
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Chirality, meaning handedness, pervades much of modern science, from the physics of elementary particles to the chemistry of life. The amino acids and sugars from which the central molecules of life—proteins and nucleic acids—are constructed exhibit...

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Barron, L. D. (2008). Chirality and Life. In Strategies of Life Detection (pp. 187–201). Springer US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77516-6_13

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