ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers

Chemistry
is, when the mother takes it, the form that was bad starts truncating blood vessels and since the blood vessel
growth gets truncated, the arms can’t grow and whatever depends on growing blood vessels gets truncated.
Most drugs that are marketed are chiral. That’s an extreme case. The less extreme case is that one has medicinal
properties and the other has no properties whatsoever. And then there are other cases where they might have
opposite properties. One might be good for the heart and the other one is good just as a sedative, you know.
They even taste, some drugs taste different, you know. If you had different forms of sugar one might be sour or
something and the other one might taste sweet. The body is able to recognize these differences because it is a
chiral environment. In the normal sort of chemical reactions it doesn’t matter which is which… I’m developing
techniques to separate these molecules.
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