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Answer by user14111 for Short story: planet with wrong chirality

Short story: planet with wrong chirality"Contagion", a 1950 novelette by Katherine Maclean, apparently also the answer to this old question. You can read it at Project Gutenberg or the Internet...

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Answer by Rand al'Thor for Short story: planet with wrong chirality

Are you sure it was a short story, or could it be Larry Niven's novel Destiny's Road?From this page:In Larry Niven's Destiny's Road, the title planet's indigenous life is based upon right-handed...

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Short story: planet with wrong chirality

The explorers landed on a planet where the chirality was opposite that of Earth’s. For some reason they couldn’t leave, so one of the scientists isolated people’s cells, basically put them into an...

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