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Graph Theory Cracks the Hidden Geometry of Giant Carbon Molecules

Mathematicians have derived exact closed-form topological descriptors for three families of giant benzenoid hydrocarbons, ...

How plant enzymes learned to tell mirror-image molecules apart

Many naturally occurring molecules such as menthol or limonene exist in two mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers, that ...
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AI Chemists Learn Where to Break Molecules: Active Learning Steers Drug Discovery Reactions

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Roche have combined active learning with geometric and self-supervised deep learning to predict ...

A molecule’s ‘handedness’ can determine whether it’s an effective drug – 4 examples of pharmaceuticals where chirality matters

The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.

Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel‑winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand

From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in ...

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists who unraveled mystery of mirror molecules

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed medicine.
The Joplin Globe

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai for untangling mirror images in molecules

Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for untangling mysterious mirror images in ...

Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and ...
Nature

Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of how ‘handed’ organic molecules can emerge

“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can ...
Phys.org

Trace molecules emerge as chemical 'keystones' that steer life's communities

In nature, the rarest ingredient can be the one that holds everything together. In a new article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Dr. Erika C. Freeman of the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater ...
science

A diffusion-based framework for designing molecules in flexible protein pockets

Designing molecules for flexible protein pockets poses a substantial challenge in structure-based drug discovery, as proteins often undergo conformational changes upon ligand binding. While deep ...