At this year's Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, scientist Jack Szostak shared insights with a young chemist
The 60th Annual Lindau Meeting: Nobelists Inspire the Next Generation of Scientists
The interdisciplinary meeting gathered 61 Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry, along with 650 young researchers from 70 countries at Germany's Lindau Island in Lake Constance from June 27 to July 2. Laureates presented recent research results, reflected on their careers and floated new ideas during lectures and discussions between the two generations
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September 16, 2010
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Many molecules are chiral, which means they have two possible forms that are non-superimposable mirror images of each other, just like your left and right hand. But in the amino acids and sugars that make up living things, we find only one of these forms--and young chemist Abigail Hubbard wants to know why. She’s keen to pick Jack Szostak’s brain on the source of this "homochirality," a subject close to Jack’s own research into the origin of life on Earth.
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