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‘Mirror-image’ protein factories could one day make durable drugs the body can’t break down
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‘Mirror-image’ protein factories could one day make durable drugs the body can’t break down

BY ROBERT F. SERVICE A cellular enzyme known as T7 RNA polymerase (left) helps builds the RNA component of the protein-building factories known as ribosomes. Scientists are now creating a mirror-image form (right) that could ultimately help create similarly flipped proteins. YUAN XU AND TING ZHU All of life exists on just one side of...