Nobel Prize in Chemistry: France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai honoured for the mirror-molecule puzzle
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ItalyRome takes from the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the promise of safe medicines: the Italian press explains mirror molecules through thalidomide and recalls Kagan's exclusion in 2001.
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MexicoMexico City sees this Nobel Prize in Chemistry as the resolution of an ancient scientific enigma, that of mirror molecules, and above all retains the tool offered to chemists and the pharmaceutical industry.
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Focusing on the 2001 controversy
the title highlights Kagan's past exclusion rather than Soai's work.
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chirality is presented mainly through its pharmaceutical implications and the example of thalidomide.
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MexicoPharmaceutical
the narrative of the dispatch highlights the industrial use of the discovery.
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