Nobel Chemistry 2026 Awarded to Kagan and Soai for Mirror-Image Discovery
Henri B Kagan from France and Kenso Soai from Japan received the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for explaining why living organisms prefer left-handed amino acids over right-handed ones. Their pioneering work advanced pharmaceutical development by focusing on producing drugs using only the beneficial mirror form of amino acids, solving a century-old scientific mystery.
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