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It’s a stressful life for bacteria. Bacillus subtilis commonly lives in soil, where it’s under daily attack from heat, acid and salts in the soil. ...
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The p53 gene is a tumour suppressor gene, in other words its activity stops the formation of tumours. It is therefore a key protein in the cell’s ...
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Membrane proteins are essential for many biological processes in organisms ranging from bacteria to humans. In the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. ...
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Liquid crystals are a state of matter that possesses some properties of liquids and some of solids. Their use in display screens is familiar, ...
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All living things propagate through the process of cell division. Histone proteins play a vital role in this complex process, but the exact ...
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Shigella flexneri is a bacterium which causes dysentery, resulting in a million deaths worldwide every year. To infect humans, it uses a complex ...
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DNA is constantly under attack. Within the human body there is an army of proteins which can detect when DNA has been damaged and attempt to ...
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During normal healthy cell division, the cell goes through a series of checkpoints to prevent abnormal or damaged cells from proceeding with ...
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Multiferroics are materials in which ferroelectric and magnetic orders are closely related, opening the possibility for tuning the first one with ...
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Professor Trevor Rayment and Dr Alison Davenport from the University of Birmingham have used the Microfocus Spectroscopy beamline I18 to carry out ...
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Scientists from Newcastle University have solved the first de novo crystal structure of a protein using diffraction data from Diamond Light ...
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Metal oxyhydroxide nanoparticles form in many natural (e.g. rivers) and contaminated land environments. These mineral particles are an important ...
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Zeolites are important nanoporous materials with many applications, including use in laundry detergents, as industrial catalysts and for cleaning ...
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Diamond Light Source, the UK's world-class synchrotron facility, has welcomed the first users to its new Test beamline. Researchers from Royal ...
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Thin films produced by depositing pre-formed size-selected gas-phase nanoparticles are an important class of materials, particularly because of ...
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Tuberculosis is a major cause of death worldwide, killing over 1.5 million people each year. Understanding how the bacterium Mycobacterium ...
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Nerves and blood vessels grow to the right places because they receive instructions to keep them on the correct path. These instructions come from ...
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Aurora-A is an essential enzyme which is required for human cells to multiply. Aurora-A has higher activity than normal in many human cancers and ...
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The first publication from Diamond Light Source utilised the synchrotron’s high intensity x-rays and a diamond-anvil cell on the Extreme ...
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Dr Paul Schofield is a researcher in mineral sciences in the Department of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum (NHM). Paul used I18 to study ...
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