{"id":243614,"date":"2026-09-04T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-research-could-improve-detection-of-chiral-molecules-in-pharmaceuticals-and-biotechnology"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:36:59","slug":"new-research-could-improve-detection-of-chiral-molecules-in-pharmaceuticals-and-biotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/new-research-could-improve-detection-of-chiral-molecules-in-pharmaceuticals-and-biotechnology","title":{"rendered":"New research could improve detection of chiral molecules in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-could-improve-detection-of-chiral-molecules-in-pharmaceuticals-and-biotechnology3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ohio University Distinguished Professor Alexander Govorov of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute (NQPI) in the College of Arts and Sciences has co-authored a new study published in <i>Science Advances<\/i> with collaborators at Wuhan University in China and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cUltrasensitive Chiral Detection by Nonlinear Chiroptics in Spiral Plasmonic Metastructures Surpasses Linear Limits,\u201d addresses a major challenge in chemical and biological analysis: detecting molecular chirality, or \u201chandedness.\u201d Chirality plays a critical role in biochemical processes and drug function, yet conventional chiroptical measurements often produce weak signals that make sensitive detection difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Most chiral chemicals (enantiomers) are synthesized with both left-and right-handed forms. Often, only one enantiomer is biologically active, while the other may be ineffective or even harmful. A classic example is thalidomide, in which one enantiomer provides sedative and antinausea effects, while the other can cause birth defects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio University Distinguished Professor Alexander Govorov of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute (NQPI) in the College of Arts and Sciences has co-authored a new study published in Science Advances with collaborators at Wuhan University in China and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy. The study, \u201cUltrasensitive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}