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Why Is Your Heart on the Left? Unraveling the Mysteries of Biological Chirality

Exploring geometry and chirality in life by probing the sphinx tile. Why is the heart slightly to the left side of the body for most people? Why is DNA almost always a right-handed helix? The same goes for alpha helices, the building blocks of proteins. Chirality, or handedness, is pervasive in bio

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