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Chemistry Nobel awarded for solving mystery of life's asymmetry

The winners are awarded the Nobel Prize medal and a share of 12.0 million Swedish Kroner ($1.25m; £900,000)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan's Kenso Soai for providing a solution to the chemical mystery of life's asymmetry.

The researchers discovered how nature exclusively makes the correct version of a molecule - rather than its mirror image.

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