Many of the undesirable reactions that mirror cells avoid depend on sensing and reacting with chiral molecules. Therefore, cells made up of mirror molecules would simply not interact with most normal ...

Chirality is a property of an object that can’t be superimposed on its mirror image no matter how it’s rotated ... that microtubules swirled along with the actin fibers in their experiments, but that ...

Chirality is a fundamental property of asymmetry in nature, where an object or molecule cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. In the context of nanotechnology, chirality refers to the ...

Chemists and chemical engineers at California Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the University ...

A mirror image E. coli could therefore make ... recognition of pathogen wall components (peptidoglycans), which are chiral. Experiments have shown that, in immunocompromised flies, even the ...

Both results make use of chirality — a structural design that does not show mirror symmetry. Some naturally occurring materials, such as milk or sugar solutions, have extremely weak chirality.

The molecules responsible for optical activity are chiral, meaning that they cannot be superimposed on their mirror images ... stimulation and detection experiments with small animals.