Nanosatellite to Test Life's Handedness in Space

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 10:42 in Biology & Nature

Much of the biology on Earth involves molecules that are oriented in a left-handed direction. A proposed nano-satellite would carry up some of these bio-molecules to see if something in space might be responsible for this left-handed excess.

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