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New Way to Tell Left From Right Thursday, June 12, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Science
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A Duke University chemist has apparently solved a long-standing frustration in creating certain synthetic molecules that make up drugs, which could lead to better drugs with fewer side effects. Like human hands, many molecules that make up drugs come in two shapes, right and left. But usually only one of the two versions has the desired effect; the other is at best useless and sometimes even harmful. (source: news.duke.edu)
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