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Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
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Oxford Sparks explore what chirality is.
What links drugs, shells, springs and vines? Chirality, when mirror images of things don't look the same, is explored and we learn what maths can tell us about it - from designing drugs to the very meaning of life.

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Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
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Jo Dunkley
Alain Goriely
Robert Llewellyn
Keywords
mathematics
chirality
drug development
symmetry
origins
Physics
chemistry
biology
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:05:20

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