Kagan, Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving 'handedness' puzzle

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French chemist Henri B Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their work solved the long-standing mystery of why life predominantly uses left-handed amino acids. The research centered on understanding and controlling the preference for specific molecular mirror images, known as chirality. This fundamental discovery has critical applications in developing more effective and targeted pharmaceutical drugs.

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