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Nature’s Tiny Architects: Designing Molecular Shapes for Medical Miracles


Researchers have learned to control the "handedness" of peptoids, a crucial factor in precision drug delivery and diagnostics. Nature is filled with extraordinarily precise molecular shapes that fit together like a hand in glove. Proteins, for example, can assemble into a wide variety of well-defin

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