Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

Surprisingly, some of these amino acids exist in a mirror world. Amino acids on Earth ... “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of a solar system teeming with the potential for ...

Some molecules exist as mirror images of themselves ... it may be possible to create entire mirror-image life forms made up of these enantiomers—specifically, microbial life such as bacteria.

Though it may sound like something cute from “Alice in Wonderland,” mirror life refers to synthetic ... with building blocks that are mirror images of the constituents of DNA, RNA and proteins ...

Mirror cells could offer a promising approach for studying life forms with much less contamination, or for producing mirror drugs that would not be broken down or removed by cellular processes in the ...

Just when you thought you had enough to worry about, scientists came up with a new world-ending anxiety for us all. A dire warning about something nobody outside the relevant fields knew anything ...