Filtering for molecule handedness (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Filtering for molecule handedness

Caption

Many molecules used in medicines have a symmetry known as handedness; they have the same atoms connected in the same order, but the 3-D arrangement is mirrored and cannot be superimposed. The body reacts very differently to the “right-” and “left-” handed versions of the molecule.

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Erin Bucci/UCLA

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