00:01A win for French scientist Henri Bicagin and Japan's Kenzo Soei.
00:06The two have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for offering a solution to the chemical mystery of life's
00:12asymmetry.
00:14The scientists discovered how nature only makes the correct version of a molecule rather than its mirror image.
00:20Similarly to hands, amino acids exist as two mirrored variants, but only one of them is found in the body's
00:26cells.
00:28Researchers have long wondered how that process unfolds and, according to the jury, the two scientists' discoveries have
00:34"...enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to it."
00:39Their award comes after the Physics Prize and ahead of the most anticipated award, the Peace Prize, which is due
00:44Friday.
