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Very many important bio-molecules— from the smallest building blocks like amino acids, through larger proteins, to the famous DNA double helix— are chiral, meaning that like our hands they can possess (...)

The intrinsic apoptosis (programmed cell death) pathway responds to irreparable DNA damages in cells by marking them for destruction. Cancerous cells with damaged DNA distinguish from classical cells (...)

Cyanobacteria are abundant bacteria in many continental and marine environments. 2.3 billion years ago they "invented" oxygenic photosynthesis process, this essential reaction that uses light energy (...)

At 6000 years old, this copper amulet is the earliest lost-wax cast object known. Now, researchers have finally discovered how it was made, using a novel UV-visible photoluminescence spectral imaging (...)

Through use of the PROXIMA-1 and PROXIMA-2A beamlines, researchers of the Ecole Polytechnique (CNRS, Palaiseau) and IGBMC (CNRS, INSERM and Strasbourg University) have determined the structure of a (...)

A reaction chamber was coupled to a photoionization aerosol time-of flight mass spectrometer on the DESIRS beamline for on-line analysis of organic and inorganic-organic mixed aerosols using (...)

Setups build to carry out high-pressure spectroscopy experiments –infrared (IR), TeraHertz (THz) or Raman– have been presented over the past years, some of them combining high pressure and low (...)

Researchers from MONARIS, LPS laboratory and SOLEIL succeeded in crystallizing gold colloidal crystals made of poly- or single-nanocrystals, and their structures have been revealed using the bio (...)

If the traditional domain of excellence of synchrotron radiation is that of X-rays, SOLEIL also represents a currently irreplaceable broad band source for high resolution infrared (IR) spectroscopy (...)

A research work on generation of natural crystals of proteins by a cockroach viviparous species has been partly investigated on the PROXIMA-1 beamline.

Scanning hard X-ray imaging allows simultaneous acquisition of multimodal information, i.e. of images in which each pixel contains several types of data. The output is, for instance, a map of the (...)

In a storage ring, an electron beam interacts with the vacuum chamber, generating wake fields that act back on the beam itself. The main effect of these fields is to limit the stored current because (...)