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Ordered protein aggregation is thought to be the cause of several diseases including Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, the prion ...
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We have used the high intensity x-ray beam on beamline I15 to examine the crystal structures of the alkali metals Na and K to above 100 GPa (1 ...
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Rho family GTPases are important cellular switches and control a number of physiological functions. Understanding the molecular basis of ...
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Over the last few years, IR absorption spectroscopy has grown up as a potential analytical method in tissue and cell studies for cancer diagnosis. ...
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The crystal structure of the high-pressure ζ-form of the explosive CL-20 has been determined using a combination of x-ray single crystal and ...
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A combined time-resolved synchrotron-based Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS) utilising a controlled chemical synthesis apparatus including ...
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Rho proteins are small GTPases that function to regulate cell motility, polarity, adhesion, cytoskeletal organisation, proliferation and ...
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The experiment undertaken on I16 showed strong evidence of twinning, from the ‘speckled’ Bragg peaks of manganites crystallites. This was ...
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We show that small quantities of 1,3:2,4-di(4- chlorobenzylidene) sorbitol dispersed in poly(ε- caprolactone) provide a very effective ...
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Why do some fossils preserve soft tissue in very fine detail while others most of the detail is lost? After death there is a race against time ...
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Better understanding of the distribution of elastic and plastic strains in deformed polycrystalline, multiphase materials is important for ...
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Chirality, the property of an object to exist as distinguishable mirror image forms (known as enantiomers), is ubiquitous. Intriguingly, the ...
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Electronic devices are getting smaller all the time, and the challenge is to make the individual components as small as possible without affecting ...
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We have demonstrated the use of a new technique for determining absolute crystal chirality by resonant X-ray diffraction of circularly polarized ...
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Diamond Light Source has been used to profile a new zeolitic microporous solid, created via a process that had previously been thought impossible. ...
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In 2006 the Stardust mission returned to Earth with the first bona fide samples of a short period comet 81P/Wild2. Micron – sized dust samples ...
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The vast majority of the electronic devices today are based on silicon technology and their performance and operation depend on the movement and ...
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Great Britain is an island nation, with over 11,000 miles of coastline*. But the coastline is continually changing, due to the process of coastal ...
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Metal-on-metal hip replacement is a treatment for “wear and tear” arthritis (osteoarthritis) – one of the commonest diseases in the world. These ...
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Battlefield use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons has generated considerable controversy because of the potential long-term effects on the ...
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