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Publié le 01.31.2023
From soil to cacao bean: unravelling the pathways of cadmium in cacao trees
The accumulation of cadmium (Cd), a potentially toxic metal, in cocoa beans has recently become a subject of intense research, after the European Union and the Codex Alimentarius* decided to lower the legal limits of cadmium in chocolate. To date, there is a complete lack of knowledge of how Cd is transported from soil to the beans. Therefore, the study summarized here aimed at proposing pathways...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Publié le 08/04/2021
Green chemistry and biofuel: the mechanism of a key photoenzyme decrypted
The functioning of the enzyme FAP (Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase), useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists...
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Publié le 13/08/2020
SOLEIL Highlights 2019
As requested by its Board in December 2018, the year 2019 saw the beginning of work on a Conceptual Design report to prepare for the upgrade of SOLEIL’s installations. This work was...
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Publié le 04/08/2020
Synchrotron SOLEIL actively participates in SARS-CoV-2 research
In the combat against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the French National Research Agency (ANR) launched a call for projects at the beginning of March 2020, for the funding of targeted research topics on the...
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Publié le 29/07/2020
Dubbed videos in French Sign Language, a sign of accessibility
A third video with French subtitles and dubbed in French Sign Language (LSF), is now available.
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