You’ve heard of the thalidomide tragedy, the morning sickness medication that caused serious birth defects, but the actual chemistry behind why it was so devastating? That’s a mind-blowing story most people don’t know. Thalidomide revealed two game-changing discoveries that transformed medicine forever: First, that a drug taken by mouth could actually cross through to the baby and cause harm – something doctors didn’t know before. Second, she exposed the huge importance of something called chira