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2020

  • news
    Honours for Director of Life Sciences

    Honours for Director of Life Sciences Dec 31, 2020

    Life Sciences Director at Diamond receives Knighthood for services to science and work towards pandemic.

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    Scientists have discovered a new type of molecular knot using X-ray diffraction techniques at Diamond

    Scientists have discovered a new type of molecular knot using X-ray diffraction techniques at Diamond Dec 14, 2020

    Scientists have developed a way of braiding three molecular strands enabling tighter and more complex knots to be made than has previously been ...

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    Using Diamond’s X-ray beam, researchers have discovered pollution from cooking remains in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought

    Using Diamond’s X-ray beam, researchers have discovered pollution from cooking remains in the atmosphere for longer than previously thought Dec 10, 2020

    Particulate emissions from cooking have been discovered to stay in the atmosphere for longer than initially thought, causing a prolonged ...

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    Construction has started on a new dedicated Active Materials Building at Diamond

    Construction has started on a new dedicated Active Materials Building at Diamond Nov 30, 2020

    Work has begun on a new preparation laboratory that will provide exciting new opportunities for advancing radioactive materials research.

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    Diamond-II: Last call for statements of support

    Diamond-II: Last call for statements of support Nov 24, 2020

    Our electronic Statements of Support form will close at 23:59 (GMT) tonight, Tuesday 24 November 2020.

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    Diamond helps in search for new breast cancer treatment

    Diamond helps in search for new breast cancer treatment Nov 16, 2020

    An international study led by scientists at the University of Sussex has provided strong evidence for an effective new target for breast cancer ...

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    Diamond-II conversations in full swing!

    Diamond-II conversations in full swing! Nov 13, 2020

    We are striving to further improve the world-changing science that Diamond enables through Diamond-II.

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    From nought to sixty in six months… the unmasking of the virus behind COVID-19

    From nought to sixty in six months… the unmasking of the virus behind COVID-19 Nov 10, 2020

    In just over six months scientists all over the globe in collaboration with Diamond have made huge progress in understanding how COVID-19 operates ...

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    New Ptychography Branchline J08 at Diamond celebrates key milestone with First Users

    New Ptychography Branchline J08 at Diamond celebrates key milestone with First Users Nov 10, 2020

    A key milestone has recently been achieved at the soft X-ray spectro- and tomo-ptychography branchline (J08) at Diamond.

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    Hybrid photoactive perovskites imaged with atomic resolution for the first-time

    Hybrid photoactive perovskites imaged with atomic resolution for the first-time Oct 30, 2020

    A huge step towards better performing solar cells - a collaboration identified information previously invisible using Diamond's ePSIC facility and ...

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    New Diamond technology development – HeXi to play major role in drug discovery

    New Diamond technology development – HeXi to play major role in drug discovery Oct 28, 2020

    Diamond Light Source is to build a dedicated electron diffraction instrument for drug discovery research, as part of a larger collaboration grant ...

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    Science in Parliament: How Diamond has been helping shed light on COVID-19

    Science in Parliament: How Diamond has been helping shed light on COVID-19 Oct 26, 2020

    Diamond has featured in the Autumn 2020 edition of Science in Parliament, the official journal of the Parliamentary & Scientific Committee.

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    Diamond hits 10,000 structures in the Protein Data Bank

    Diamond hits 10,000 structures in the Protein Data Bank Oct 22, 2020

    This week's PDB release takes Diamond beyond 10,000 structures deposited.

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    Diamond helps uncover how an untreatable cancer-causing virus affects immune cells

    Diamond helps uncover how an untreatable cancer-causing virus affects immune cells Oct 15, 2020

    Scientists have found that human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 1 (HTLV-1) hijacks cellular machinery to establish an infection.

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    An OBE for Prof Andrew Harrison

    An OBE for Prof Andrew Harrison Oct 12, 2020

    Prof Andrew Harrison will receive an OBE for services to science especially during COVID lockdown.

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    Structural Biology identifies new information to accelerate structure-based drug design against Covid-19

    Structural Biology identifies new information to accelerate structure-based drug design against Covid-19 Oct 7, 2020

    A new research has identified potential ways forward to rapidly design improved and more potent compounds in the fight against COVID-19. 

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    A new enzyme cocktail can digest plastic waste six times faster

    A new enzyme cocktail can digest plastic waste six times faster Sep 29, 2020

    Research undertaken at Diamond has allowed scientists to create a super-enzyme that degrades plastic bottles six times faster than before.

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    New discovery will have huge impact on the development of future battery cathodes

    New discovery will have huge impact on the development of future battery cathodes Sep 21, 2020

    A new paper reveals how a collaborative team of researchers have been able to fully identify the nature of oxidised oxygen in the important ...

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    Ocean acidification risks deep-sea coral reef collapse

    Ocean acidification risks deep-sea coral reef collapse Sep 18, 2020

    Diamond X-rays were used in a recent study that suggests climate change is triggering changes to the chemistry of deep-sea coral reefs which may ...

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    Researchers glimpse how virus particles assemble inside the cell - Giving us clues as to how to prevent the spread of viral infections

    Researchers glimpse how virus particles assemble inside the cell - Giving us clues as to how to prevent the spread of viral infections Sep 11, 2020

    An international team of researchers were able visualise how orthoreovirus assembles inside infected cells.

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