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Twisted vibrations enable quality control for chiral drugs and supplements
Publicado em 22 de março de 2022
Journal Reference:
Choi, W.J., Yano, K., Cha, M. et al. Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules. Nat. Photon, 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41566-022-00969-1
The researchers hope that the technique could also help diagnose harmful accumulations of twisted molecules in the body, including bladder stones, insulin fibrils and amyloid aggregations such as the plaques that appear in Alzheimer’s disease.
In a world of curled molecules, biology often favors [...]