{
  "id": 12639712,
  "title": "Nobel Chemistry 2026: How Kagan, Soai solved century-old 'mirror-image' mystery",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/nobel-chemistry-2026-how-kagan-soai-solved-century-old-mirror-image",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-07T13:41:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/nobel-chemistry-2026-how-kagan-soai-solved-century-old-mirror-image-mystery/articleshow/134767719.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Henri B Kagan of France and Kenso Soai from Japan were honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2026. They unveiled the fascinating reason why living organisms favor left-handed amino acids over right-handed ones. Their groundbreaking research focused on generating pharmaceuticals that utilize only the beneficial mirror form of amino acids.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}