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Publié le 09.12.2023

Raising awareness of science among an ever-younger audience

Since 2015, SOLEIL has been partnering the Yvelines and Essonne Departmental Inspectorates of Primary Education with the "Lumières Primaires" project. This partnership involves designing and providing elementary school teachers with trunks containing teaching materials for implementing experimental activities, as well as training and supporting the teaching teams involved.

Publié le 05/07/2023

SOLEIL Highlights 2022

This document presents a selection of the remarkable results achieved by our users and teams. They allow us to remain optimistic for the future, despite a difficult context linked to the...

Publié le 12/04/2023

SOLEIL’s contribution to understanding viruses

After 15 years of opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a series of thematic brochures...

Publié le 15/03/2023

Molecular mechanism of LDL cholesterol regulation

In a crucial step towards understanding the mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, a research team has achieved a world first: finding the molecular mechanism by which the PCSK9...

Publié le 22/02/2023

SOLEIL Health & Well-Being scientific section meets biologists from the plateau de...

On February 1st, 2023, the Health & Well-Being scientific section of SOLEIL organised a day of presentations and discussions for biologists from the plateau de Saclay area, at the Institute for...

Publié le 29/06/2022

SOLEIL Highlights 2021

The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic...

Publié le 01/03/2022

Monitoring the motion of a microbiome enzyme involved in methane biosynthesis

The largest and most diverse family of enzymes are the so-called radical SAM enzymes. They catalyse a large number of major biochemical reactions often unprecedented in living cells, notably for the...

Publié le 24/01/2022

Light activates a molecular virulence switch in the bacterium responsible for the “black...

Researchers from the Fundación Instituto Leloir in Argentina together with scientists from PROXIMA-1 & PROXIMA-2A beamlines were able to describe at a molecular level the conformational changes...

Publié le 05/08/2021

How deep-sea microbes make a life on ethane? Answers in a yellow crystal

Various hydrocarbons are naturally released in the deep-sea floor, but something in the marine sediments consumes them. The responsible are specific microorganisms, able to transform these...

Publié le 27/07/2021

SOLEIL Highlights 2020

It is obviously impossible to summarize the year 2020 without mentioning the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us all to change our way of interacting and working. However, the...

Publié le 26/07/2021

Conceptual Design Report for SOLEIL Upgrade

This document, which you can download, presents the conceptual design of an upgrade of Synchrotron SOLEIL accelerators, beamlines and infrastructure. The project is planned in two phase of 5 years...

Publié le 14/06/2021

Bacteria viruses with an extended genetic alphabet

In all living organisms, genomic DNA is made up of four nucleotide bases: A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. All, except genomic DNA of certain bacteriophages (viruses...