Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes To Researchers Who Discovered How To Make "Left- And Right-Handed" Molecules At Will
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes To Researchers Who Discovered How To Make "Left- And Right-Handed" Molecules At Will
Many drug molecules can be mirror images, and knowing how to produce one over the other allows us to choose between drastically different effects on the body.
The Nobel Committee welcomed "discoveries have played a decisive role for chemists who design reactions to the manufacture of pharmaceuticals".
Scientists found out how to design chemical reactions to produce a much larger proportion of the correct and desired version of a molecule.
The work of the scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today was "very pioneering" and contributed so that in the pharmaceutical industry the desired compound can be synthesized with greater efficiency, said the chemistry Paula Branco to Lusa.
The advance allows the pharmaceutical industry to produce molecules of a single type, a key tool for designing more efficient drugs. The Nobel office in Chemistry awards the “molecular mirror” first appeared in Eleven News.
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