Stanford’s Roger Blanford is working on a model to explain the origin of biological homochirality. In this October 2022 article, Professor Blanford writes that we do not know how biological homochirality happened. We also do not know why DNA and protein helices select a specific spin direction of the electrons that propagate through the molecule (electron transport is a regular function of biological molecules). 

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