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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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

The half-metallic nature of Fe3O4 has been demonstrated using the state-of-the-art photoemission set-up of the CASSIOPEE beamline. This a crucial result because it shows that the details of the (...)

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have revealed the crystal structure of a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on how electrons in the body move from one protein molecule to another. Their (...)

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is the result of a partnership between the European Union and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). This organization (...)