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Publié le 06/02/2014

Green chemistry: infrared light reveals the cellular metabolism of yeasts, mini-factories...

Combination of SMIS beamline synchrotron radiation and ZnSe hemisphere has allowed INRA researchers to obtain single yeast infrared spectra. The comparative analysis of infrared spectra of yeasts...

Publié le 21/01/2014

X-ray Phase Imaging

X-ray radiography based on absorption contrast is one of the efficient techniques allowing probing matter in depth. However, its analysis capabilities are strongly limited, when the elementary parts...

Publié le 06/12/2013

Tracking the accumulation of antibiotic molecules in resistant bacteria

The Joint Research Unit UMR-MD1, Aix-Marseille University, has been working with the DISCO beamline for several years to develop a non-invasive, non-perturbing method of determining the concentration...

Publié le 11/10/2013

Of mice and men… and uric acid

In humans an excess of uric acid (or hyperuricemia) is associated with, or responsible for several serious health problems: metabolic syndrome¹, gout and kidney dysfunction. Other living...

Publié le 04/06/2013

Huntington’s disease - The structure of inclusions in patients’ brains revealed by IR...

Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the formation of protein aggregates (inclusions) in certain brain regions. The secondary structure of these protein aggregates is...