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Published on 15/07/2013How are monosaccharides transported across the cell membrane?
A Swedish team provides key insights with a new 3D structure, solved from data collected on PROXIMA1, of the xylose transporter XylE from E. coli.Read more -
Published on 12/07/2013Three water molecules are enough to stabilize a dipeptide
Experiments carried out at DESIRS beamline show that nanosolvation of a fragile peptide dimer by only three water molecules, isolated in the gas phase, has a dramatic impact on its stability. A (...)Read more -
Published on 12/07/2013Shaken, not stirred - a spy story at the atomic level
Xenon is a fascinating but rare element. For an atomic physicist it shows itself as a horn of plenty: due to its electronic structure it provides a lot of transitions with complex electron correlation (...)Read more -
Published on 12/07/2013How do clays flow
Natural clays, widespread in our soils, are today at the heart of a wide variety of industrial processes ranging from the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries to the food industry. Researchers at (...)Read more -
Published on 11/07/2013A new instrument to study gaseous matter in interaction with far UV (VUV) photons
Experimental endstations are a critical part of a synchrotron facility and should be constructed in perfect coherence with the characteristics of synchrotron radiation so that the users can take full (...)Read more -
Published on 11/07/2013Contamination of groundwater – Can calcite trap arsenic?
Arsenic (As) contamination of groundwater is a very serious environmental health threat in many countries all over the world. A better understanding of the mechanism of As uptake and release by rock (...)Read more -
Published on 09/07/2013Transmission of nerve impulses – New data about the 3D structure of ion channels toward a (...)
The pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) constitute a large family of ionotropic receptors that are ubiquitously represented in the animal kingdom. In vertebrates, the family encompasses (...)Read more -
Published on 24/06/2013The R&D and production groups from ISOVER-Saint Gobain on a visit toSOLEIL
More than 60 representatives of the Saint-Gobain industrial group, including researchers from ISOVER (specialists in thermal and acoustic insulation) in Rantigny (60) and Saint Gobain Research in (...)Read more -
Published on 13/06/2013Deciphering the electronic behavior of the ionised CO molecule
Auger spectroscopy and photoemission spectroscopy experiments carried out at SPring8 and SOLEIL help deciphering the electronic behavior of the ionised CO molecule. The results, published in New (...)Read more -
Published on 07/06/2013Transmission of nerve impulses - New structural data helps to understand the action of (...)
Benzodiazepines are among the most commonly prescribed psychotropic drugs in the world, used to treat anxiety, insomnia, convulsions, spasms, etc. These molecules act by binding to specific sites at (...)Read more -
Published on 06/06/2013First structure of a rubella virus envelope protein
In the context of research on viral fusion proteins, researchers from the Structural Virology Unit at the Pasteur Institute, led by Felix Rey, have determined the first structure of a rubella virus (...)Read more -
Published on 04/06/2013Good reasons for using hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy
With the HAXPES1 station installed on the GALAXIES beamline, high kinetic energy photoemission experiments can now be performed on solid or gas samples, and in the near future also on liquids. The (...)Read more