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Electron spin may explain life’s homochirality

Life’s chemical ”handedness” may have a surprisingly physical origin. A new study on electron spin and life’s homochirality, led by Yossi Paltiel of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ron Naaman of the Weizmann Institute, suggests that electrons, not just chemistry, could have helped lock biology into using one mirror form of a molecule over […]