Nobel Prize Winner Soai's Discovery May Shed Light on Life's Origins
Tokyo, Oct. 9 (Jiji Press)--A reaction discovered by Kenso Soai, co-winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, may help explain why life on Earth uses only one of the two mirror-image molecular forms and guide the search for the origins and traces of life. Organic molecules, such as amino acids, that are essential to life can exist in two mirror-image forms, much like left and right glove...