Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views. Prohibiting the creation of molecules ...

Flipping a picture on your iPhone is a good way to get a mirror image, such as if you need to read backwards text.

More than 130 years after cyclodextrins were first discovered and reported, a team of scientists has created chemical mirror images of these complex carbohydrates in the laboratory. This discovery may ...

Building mirror bacteria composed of molecules that are mirror images of those found in nature is too risky, a group of 38 scientists, including Nobel laureates, has warned. Many in the working group ...