Cracking Chirality: The Mystery of Mirror Molecules
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- "Cracking Chirality" from Chemistry Shorts™ explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake, may have set the stage for life as we know it.
In a mirror, our bodies appear symmetrical from the right to the left. But hold one hand on top of the other, rather than palm-to-palm, and you’ll notice that they are not in fact the same; they have a defined right- or left-handedness, or chirality. Look even deeper inside, at the molecular level, and you’ll find that many of the important molecules in our bodies are similarly right or left-handed, and exist in only one form or the other. We call this homochirality.
Chirality is the idea that some molecules come in two mirror-image configurations. Despite having the exact same chemical compositions, their physical structures are different. These left-handed and right-handed molecules can have different properties and functions. Understanding how chiral molecules function differently is essential to chemical synthesis and medicine. But it also holds a curious question about early life: why are the nucleic acids that hold genetic information in all of life right-handed, while the amino acids that they encode left-handed?
In "Cracking Chirality,” two Harvard University scientists, Dimitar Sasselov and Furkan Ozturk, present their exciting new findings: magnetized molecules found at the bottom of lakes on the primordial Earth may be the key to how important biological molecules crystallized and grew, tipping the scales from a 50-50 mixture of molecules to homochiral solutions made up of just one or the other. Their simple experimental setups, growing crystals on tiny magnetized plates, help provide a solution to an essential question about life itself that has plagued scientists for decades.
“Life's polymers from DNA, to RNA, to the proteins, cannot really function if they're a mess of left-handed and right-handed molecules. They have to be clearly homochiral. And you need to do something very special to break that symmetry. It is still a big mystery of how this happened at the origin of life. And our work is trying to answer that question.”
- Dr. Dimitar Sasselov in “Cracking Chirality.”
“Cracking Chirality” is targeted towards high school and college students, and can be used as a starting point for discussions around the chemical origins of life, molecular chirality, electron spin, magnetism, and more.
Learn about Dr. Sasselov’s work here: astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/peo...
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Go Furkan! Your work and questions are exciting and inspiring. Even if I heard about chirality from Death Stranding first, which is a shame. Still, I can barely earn my bachelors at your age, so not that surprising lmao
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It was inspiring for Turkish scientist candidates. Thank you Furkan
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This whole video is excellent, but I must say that the researcher climbing the stairs while spinning at the end was particularly delightful.
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Not only a good scientist he is a good storyteller
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Sevdiği şeylerle uğraşan insanın yüzündeki o mutluluk ,Furkan abide ben bunu görüyorum ve gerçekten bu çok özel yolun açık olsun...
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The cameraman did a great job, it elevates the story being told. Congratulations.
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100 years ago, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, showed how much he cared about education by organizing an education congress with teachers despite the war during the War of Independence. Furkan Öztürk has brought pride and honor to Atatürk's humble body with the work he has done today. Thank you, brother Furkan.☺️🙏🏻
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Şimdiden teşekkür ederim. 😊🙏
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Felsefeci Robert P. Crease'ın 2019'da yazdığı ve Atatürk'ün de dahil edildiği, "Bilim Devrimcileri" adlı kitabını herkese önerelim o zaman. ❤😊
Bir Peter Higgs hayranı olduğum doğrudur. Artık Furkan Öztürk hayranlığım da aynı seviyede.
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Bizlere ilham olduğun için teşekkürler Furkan abi!
Furkan inspires us too!
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Bilim hayatın ta kendisiyken onu anlaşılmaz kılmak, teknik terimlerle herkesten soyutlaştırıp sadece kendi kitlesi içinde var etmek de bir seçenekken yapılan kıymetli işleri daha anlaşılır kılmak için gayet komplike olan şeyleri basitleştirmek ona asıl hizmet eden ve aslında en zor olan şey. Bunu başardınız. Dimitar Sasselov, Chemistry Shorts ve Furkan Öztürk Hepinizi tebrik ederim. 👏🏻 Görseller, müzikler, anlatım şahaneydi. Eminim her kitle kendini bu büyülü dünyayı merak ederken ve anlamlandırabildiğini görüp sevinirken bulacak. Furkan’ın heyecanını ve mutluluğunu paylaşıyoruz. 🇹🇷Gurur duyduk bir kez daha 🤍🥹
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As a YKS student, this video was motivating for me. One day, we can reach the same places and be more successful. Thank you, Furkan Öztürk
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hey people look out! i can easily foresee that this work will come with a nobel prize soon!
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This is groundbreaking. This is such a large piece of the puzzle and yet confirms whats I understand to be true. There’s a medium by way of "scaffolding" rather than specific elements that create what we see. This might also explain the stimuli that the living dervives from its environments such as one would seek a reflection. I mean by way of connecting why we adapt to what we respond to in our environments and the casual link between us the macro and particle influence and orientation, which would be micro
Keşke bu tür bilimsel çalışmalar ve projeler daha da yaygınlaşsa.Ülkece gereksiz şahısları takip edip onları fenomen yapmaktansa bu tür bilim insanlarını ileriye taşımayı yeğlerim.Bilmem anlatabildimmi.Furkan Türkiyenin örnek bir insanı olduğun için sana minnettarım.
Benim gibi gençlere esin kaynağı oldun.Biz Türk gençlerinin en çok da benim böyle bir emsale ihtiyacımız vardı.❤
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Nicely animated. Soul in motion, Dustin Grella. Thank you.
You have answered a question that has been eating at me since my freshman year at UC Boulder, over 40 years ago.
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O kadar yalın bir anlatım ki hayran oldum, gurur duydum. O kadar çok gence ilham oluyorsunuz ki, umarım çalışma aşkınız hepsine bulaşır. Tebrik ederim.
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Great production, simplicity for the people who don't have a background on the matter, and detail for science enthusiasts balanced perfectly. Congrats Furkan, I hope this will be just the start on the matter
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Awesome knowledgeable video...make many more of such this...
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Dear Furkan,
Well, I really do not know what to say! You are a great detail, and endless thank you for enlightening us on the origin of the life in the name of Science. Hoping that the number of enlightened and curious young people like you will increase dramatically day by day. This is a great production, thank you to all the team who contributed on the broadcast. We look forward to seeing you sharing your exciting findings with us.
All the best🤗😇🤩
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Yorumlarda furkan abinin ne kadar çok insana ilham verdiğini görmek çok güzel
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Such a sophisticated young man , I wish the best for your next academic career.🎉
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Loved the explanation with animation its really easy to understand through that
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Holy cow I'm so glad I stumbled upon this channel. Just subscribed. I could literally watch footage on this kind of stuff every day! The quality is our of this world. It's always been a dream of mine to even get a job helping a researcher, laboratory, or field work studies. I really hope to see this field of study advance because it can greatly improve our understanding of the world around us. It's amazing
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Super - truly conclusive experimental demonstration; a joy to watch. May I mention that a few years ago I had the fortune to see a crescent moon just after sunset with Venus very close in the picture. As the sky darkened to night I noticed the shadowed part of the moon was actually visible(!) because of illumination from sunlight reflected off planet Earth (I learned about Earth-shine). It was a revelation - suddenly I saw the whole night sky in its true 3d perspective.
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I am mesmerized by the video, thanks for sharing with us! Proud of you Furkan ❤
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The documentary reflected your work well to us, with good visualizations. An incredible achievement! We are proud of you Mr. Öztürk!
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This is one of the most beautiful videos I’ve ever seen about chirality
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that is a sophisticated problem and amazing work, so huge brave... Congratulations Dr. Furkan. Also, perfect production
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great to see some exciting scientific experiments done to satisfy the ultimate question about life.
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How Amazing work. Congratulations from Ankara, Turkey. God bless You.
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The video was amazing, thank you to everyone who contributed, especially Furkan Öztürk, science is exciting!
Science IS exciting! :) Thanks for watching.
Hey if you are thinking about adding Turkish subtitles to the video and aren't already working on that, could i translate the video to Turkish and send the translation to you? I wanna help with the video voluntarily. Loved the video btw. Thank you Furkan for making us proud!
Thank you for the offer! We're looking into this already now. :)
Perfect visual presentation. All scientists and production team especially Chesmistry Shots Channel thank you so much. We are grateful to you.
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So well-produced and educational!
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Amazing job.
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The documentary was great. I wish continued success to everyone who prepared it. I would also like to thank Furkan very much. We are proud of you.
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I loved end of the documentary.Everyone says that there are no emotions in science but science began with curiosity.And you feel safe when you reach and know something about science .As a Turkish person, I'm honored and thank you for this amazing documentary.
Well said!
Beautiful production. It, and the eloquent testimony of the scientists, gives a strong impression of the wonder of this mystery.
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Great explanation!
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Incredible work thanks everyone
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Intriguing and inspiring. I thank those who contributed.
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Wow! Incredible presentation. Thank you.
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Congratulations,a highly successful composition.We are proud of Furkan👏
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this is an amazing production. amazing job - I love Chemistry Shorts!!!!
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thank you! it was a pleasure to watch this. 💗
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Very proudful work, thanks for everything furkan you give me so many things .
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As a Turkish chemist, I am beyond proud of Furkan Ozturk👏🏻
The shooting quality, the participants and the harmonious dance of science and art were conveyed magnificently. It is very nice to witness the light that someone who does what he loves brings to life. I'm glad to have you, Furkan. Thanks to the whole team 🌸
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Bizim üniversitelerde olmayan şey bir astrofizikcinin moleküller biyolojiye girmesidir, farklı alanlardaki bilgi birikiminin yararlı olabileceği her zaman hesaba katılmalıdır, sadece bu yaklaşıma sahip olmanız, oradaki bilim insanlarının bunu desteklemesi bile takdire değerdir. Örnek almalıyız.
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Marvelous, Brilliant.
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Great great work Furkan! 👍🏻 Also congrats to the documentary team for preparing such good content❤
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Sevgili Furkan hocam, sen yaptıklarınla gençlerimize harika bir örnek oluyorsun. Başarılarının devamını diliyor ve yeni paylaşımlarını dört gözle bekliyorum. 👏
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Really thanks for sharing this incredible background of the scientists...more away from the so interesting research in Origin of life-prebiotic chemistry- Chirality...I felt so connect with Sasselov, since he himself said he would never had thought to be studying chemistry since he had ever hated it...I'm in almosttttt a same situation with a difference...I love Chemistry, also Astronomy and Biology and I've been feeling pressure just for having to choose one to start a scientific carrer if I want to get closer to one of my dreams ...study in a field that link these beautiful areas can be possible while doing it just following what I like, without prejudices or "ideals" of what I should do/follow... ❤
Dr. Sasselov is so inspiring! We're glad you liked the video.
A very interesting short film.We are one step closer to solving a problem that everyone is wondering about. And this is a very important development.
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Incredible video. Thank you for continuing to inspire the love of science in all of us.
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It will not be too long before Furkan Ozturk win the Nobel for his successful discovery on chirality Turkish Americans are very proud of you young man.🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
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We are all proud of you Furkan Öztürk ! ❤🇹🇷 thank you for being an example to me and many young people who love science like me. You are a great idol ! thank you to those who prepared this video for doing a great job ⭐
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Wow, this is beautiful. May I know where I can find all the music used in this short film?
su kotu gunlerde,su kadar gurur verici bir abiye sahip oldugumuz icin o kadar mutluyum ki daha nicelerine insallah🤍
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Sizin gibi bilim insanları sayesinde artık önümüz açılıyor teşekkürler
It's a amazing video visual quality is perfect. Using very good and suitable visual materials. I love it ! Thank you very much for this video💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
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We are here as the students of Furkan 🇹🇷
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Go back to mongolia
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Milli gururlarımızdan biri, Tebrikler Furkan!
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İt was Interesting video ❤ thxx
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We are proud of Furkan. He is an inspiring person btw that is an amazing documentary
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Fascinating! The discovery of all of these interactions would make interesting videos too.
Love your work! Best wishes🎉
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Hayatımda izlediğim en güzel belgesellerden biriydi.
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From Turkey, thanks Furkan👏👏🏻
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Our pride❤👏🏻
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Thank you for wonderful expression🇹🇷
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Great work guys. Seninle gurur duyuyoruz abi, yolun her daim açık olsun. Bize ilham kaynağı, önümüzdeki yolu aydınlatan ışık oldun.
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çok iyi olmuş, tebrikler furkan.
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Tebrikler umarım daha da başarılı olursunuz
Thank you for checking out our video!
I've loved chemistry since my first high school class of it. I think of it as my first academic love.
That's so nice to hear!
Amazing ❤
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we are so proud of you Furkan!!! ❤ You are gonna achive much more in the coming days!!!
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Furkan kardeşim tebrikler. Sayende gururlandık. Gelişime bu kadar kapalı ve eğitim kalitesinin bu kadar yerlerde olduğu bir toplumun arasından senin gibi bireylerin çıkabilmesi gerçek bir mucize. Gelecekte çok daha ileri gideceğine şüphe yok. Bütün hedeflerini başarman dileğiyle kardeşim. Sevgiler, saygılar...
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That spinning walk up a spiral staircase at the end. Nailed it! 😂❤
We love that part too! Thank you for watching.
Thank you. Very interesting.
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the next time i find a helical staircase im gonna be trying this out.
I was not expecting to see Furkan in a chemistry related channel, even though I knew about his origin works. So exciting! Physics people unite! Lol
Welcome to our channel! :)
Maybe he wanna say chemical researchers and physicians need to cooperation with some projects together.
You are a source of pride for us, Furkan.
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We are all proud of your success dear Furkan Ozturk. Regards to you
from my hometown city of Trabzon. ❤❤❤
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Muhteşem! İdolümsün Furkan abi, umarım ileride senin gibi bilgili , kültürlü, donanımlı birisi olabilirim
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Mr. Ozturk is a true scientist! Thank you.
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Harika, çalışmalarınla gurur duyuyoruz Furkan Öztürk. 🎉
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I got goosebumps over here. Good work!
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please include me in your study..... such positive work atmosphere, no academic pressure nothing to worry about just pure science and curiosity
Amazing production, such a hard concept and you made easier to understand.
Happy to hear that!
I loved organic chemistry reactions but naming chiral compounds is so difficult.
Amazing🎉
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Merhaba Furkan hocam. Ben Ceylin.Sizi kendime çok benzetiyorum. Olaylara ve dünya ya farklı bakış açılarıyla bakıp yeni şeyler keşfediyoruz. Bence bilim insanlarının ortak noktası bu. Olaylara ve dünyaya farklı bakış açılarıyla bakıp aslında gerçekte var olan fakat kimsenin farkına varmadığı şeyleri ortaya çıkarıyoruz.O yüzden sizi bu keşfinizden dolayı tebrik ediyorum. Başarılarınızın devamını diliyorum.Gelecek yılarda sizinle çalışmak dileğiyle…
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