Betsy Smeed

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The Handiness Question

March2

One of the big questions in the origin of life, is why are some chemicals right handed or left handed. Usually in a reaction, the two enantiomers are formed. And this is dependent on several factors. Looking at meteorites, scientists have found that in space there is a higher proportion of left-handed amino acids than expected.

Abstract

Edit: After publishing this piece, I received information about a conference on this topic.

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