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Science and Research Highlights
November 2, 2009
Scientists have completed studies that confirm the elegant and unique structure of the silken egg stalk of the green lacewing (Chrysopidae), thanks to high-brightness x-rays from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne. The information they obtained suggests that lacewing silk has both reasonable tensile strength and very high extensibility and may have potential value as a biomaterial.
October 27, 2009
Biologists using an x-ray beamline at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne have worked out a rudimentary architectural plan for the nuclear pore complex, the gatekeeper of the cell's nucleus. Their finding reveals a remarkable evolutionary story dating back more than one billion years.
October 16, 2009
It is hard to believe that a single protein can be responsible for the damage inflicted by diseases such as Mad Cow Disease. Yet the implicated protein, known as a prion, can initiate and propagate a disease cycle just by changing its shape. Researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne have achieved a significant advance in our understanding of the infectious power of the prion protein.
October 13, 2009
Scientists using two U.S. Department of Energy x-ray light sources and a sister facility in France have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechanism, the first direct evidence that bacteria are actively involved in the cycling of rare and precious metals.
October 9, 2009
With a big assist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source at Argonne, physicists have created an atomic-scale map of quantum dots with unprecedented precision, a major step toward the goal of producing “designer dots” that can be tailored for specific applications.APS News
October 28, 2009
Martin R. Kraimer, formerly of the Controls Group in the Argonne APS Engineering Support Division, is one of three recipients of the first Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the ICALEPCS International Scientific Advisory Committee.
October 7, 2009
All three recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry published papers on their award-winning work based on data collected at the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
APS Science 2008, featuring articles on Advanced Photon Source research and engineering highlights, is now available.
