title: On the origin of biological chirality via natural beta-decay.
abstract: Experimental evidence that longitudinally polarized electrons having the handedness characteristic of terrestrial beta-decay electrons preferentially remove D-leucine from a racemic mixture, coupled with the probable presence of 14C in pre-biotic molecules, offers a plausible hypothesis for the origin of biomolecular handedness.
mesh_terms: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D004583:Electrons; D007839:Functional Laterality; D007930:Leucine; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing
chemical_list: D002250:Carbon Radioisotopes; D007930:Leucine