TWiV 954: Speculating sarbecovirus spillovers with Michael Letko
This Week in Virology
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The Mirror Image of Amino Acids and Nucleic Acids
Astronomers tend to put the emphasis on the first syllable, Yur, and then say, Anis. Uranus was changed to Uranus in 1986 or 85 when one of the space probes was preparing to do its flyby. If you could make a mirror image ribosome that would have the mirror image amino acids and nucleotides to make up the ribosome, that thing could theoretically make D protein.
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