The Diamond synchrotron provides leading edge facilities for science.

Aerial view of DiamondDiamond uses powerful magnets such as this sextupoleDiamond Light Source is a new scientific facility in South Oxfordshire on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. This giant machine, called a synchrotron, supports ground-breaking research in the life, physical and environmental sciences.
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Isentress (Raltegravir) bound to the active site of the integrase-DNA complexA puzzle solved in HIV research
03 Feb 2010
Researchers into from Imperial College London and Harvard University have used Diamond to solve a 20-year-old puzzle about how HIV establishes itself More...
Beamline I19 paper most accessed article
01 Feb 2010
Research containing data collected on Diamond’s Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction (I19) beamline has been published in Chemistry – More...
Diamond 2nd XAFS Workshop
01 Feb 2010
Diamond Light Source is holding a workshop on the processing and analysis of XAS data from the 7th-9th of June. Diamond has three x-ray absorption spectroscopy More...

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Of Beeswax and Synchrotrons
04 Jan 2010
MX beamlines are extremely powerful instruments for solving the structure of proteins. There are nearly 100 operational Macromolecular Crystallography More...
The DNA-damage response
17 Dec 2009
Breaks in DNA cause a cascade of intercellular responses including the activation of the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 (MRN) complex. This complex attaches itself to More...

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The 7th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science (SRMS-7) and the 6th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering Design of Synchrotron Radiation Equipment and Instrumentation (MEDSI) are now open for abstracts.

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