{"id":14854,"date":"2025-06-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14854"},"modified":"2025-06-09T04:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T04:53:19","slug":"chirality-origin-life-biology-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/chirality-origin-life-biology-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Rule That Shapes All Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chirality: The Mystery of Life&#039;s Asymmetry\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wDIe0XEmwI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">All life relies on a hidden molecular preference: <em>chirality<\/em>. Though many molecules come in mirror-image forms, biology consistently chooses just one. This universal \u201chandedness\u201d is key to how proteins, DNA, and cells function. However, why life chose one form over another remains one of the greatest mysteries in science and the search for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life uses only one \u201chand\u201d of its molecular building blocks\u2014a mysterious asymmetry called homochirality that may hold clues to life\u2019s origins and even the possibility of mirror life beyond Earth.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/18069424\/pexels-photo-18069424\/free-photo-of-an-artist-s-illustration-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-this-image-depicts-how-ai-could-assist-in-genomic-studies-and-its-applications-it-was-created-by-artist-nidia-dias-as-part-of-the.png?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1260&h=750&dpr=2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[12004,12012,12019,12009,3370,12022,12014,12018,3374,12021,12002,12001,12010,12008,12013,12017,12007,3381,1393,12016,948,12005,12020,12003,12015,12011,12006,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nature","8":"category-math-and-the-sciences","9":"tag-alien-life-chirality","10":"tag-biosecurity-and-chirality","11":"tag-chiral-induced-spin-selectivity","12":"tag-chiral-molecules","13":"tag-chirality-in-biology","14":"tag-chirality-in-drug-design","15":"tag-ciss-effect","16":"tag-early-earth-chemistry","17":"tag-enantiomers","18":"tag-handedness-in-proteins","19":"tag-handedness-of-dna","20":"tag-homochirality","21":"tag-left-handed-amino-acids","22":"tag-louis-pasteur-chirality","23":"tag-magnetic-influence-on-molecules","24":"tag-mirror-life","25":"tag-molecular-asymmetry","26":"tag-molecular-handedness","27":"tag-origin-of-life","28":"tag-prebiotic-molecular-evolution","29":"tag-quanta-magazine","30":"tag-right-handed-sugars","31":"tag-smell-and-enantiomers","32":"tag-stereochemistry-in-pharmaceuticals","33":"tag-symmetry-breaking-in-biology","34":"tag-synthetic-enantiomers","35":"tag-thalidomide-birth-defects","36":"tag-youtube","37":"post_format-post-format-video","38":"cs-entry","39":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14871,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions\/14871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}