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Diamond Light Source and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are arming the engineers of tomorrow with the vital skills and experience needed to succeed in the UK job market, as youth unemployment figures hit 1,000,000.
Run by STFC with a third of support from Diamond Light Source, the Advanced Engineering Apprenticeship scheme at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) has been running for 19 years and is one of the best apprenticeship schemes in the country.
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A key mechanism by which a bacterial pathogen causes the deadly tropical disease melioidosis has been discovered by an international team of scientists.
The findings are published today (11th November 2011) in the journal Science and show how a toxin produced by the bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei kills cells by preventing protein synthesis. The study, led by the University of Sheffield, paves the way for the development of novel therapies to combat the bacterium which infects millions ...
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Oxfordshire residents are invited to take part in Diamond’s short story writing competition. Light Reading calls for participants to write a story up to 3,000 words, in any genre, inspired in some way by the science facility. Today saw the announcement of the winner of the staff pilot competition, which proved to be a great success.
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Scientists from Imperial College London and Diamond Light Source have revealed the structure of a cholesterol-lowering-drug target.
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Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan was among more than 200 scientists from across the UK who gathered at Diamond this week for the Synchrotron User Meeting 2011.
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Scientists have succeeded in purifying a protein found in bacteria that could reveal new drug targets for inherited breast and ovarian cancers as well as other cancers linked to DNA repair faults. They used Diamond Light Source to solve the structure of the protein.
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the Diamond Young Investigator Award 2011. Open to all PhD students or post-doctoral early career researchers who have used Diamond Light Source within the last 12 months (September 2010-11).
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Researchers are a step closer towards creating a new class of medicines and vaccines to combat drug-resistant and deadly strains of fungal infections, following a new study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Diamond is inviting the public to let their imaginations run away with them around the 562m particle accelerator and write a short story for a new national fiction competition, Light Reading.
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Scientists from Heptares Therapeutics have used Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, to understand the structure of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders.
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Hundreds of scientists use Diamond every year to carry out structural biology experiments, furthering our knowledge of the body and diseases, and paving the way for new drug treatments.
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Radio 4's Peter Curran came to Diamond Light Source to meet some of the scientists who work at and use the UK's synchrotron.
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Impressive results from experiments at Diamond Light Source on magnetic lensless imaging by Fourier transform holography using extended references have been published today in Optics Express, the journal of the Optical Society of America.
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More than 130 delegates from around the world, including leading experts in the field of circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, gathered in Oxford on 24-28 July for the 13th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy
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Researchers using Diamond and ISIS have highlighted new manufacturing techniques that could lead to a revolution in renewable energy. A new study published in the Journal Advanced Energy Materials this week (Monday 4 July) shows how an efficient solar cell structure spontaneously forms using very simple and inexpensive manufacturing methods similar to flexible layers of material being deposited over large areas like cling-film.
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New 3D picture of human membrane protein enables development of targeted anti-histamines without side-effects.
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Making the power of synchrotron light available to more businesses, building new experimental equipment and developing new capabilities are three of the areas of collaboration in a trans-Atlantic memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Diamond Light Source and Canadian Light Source Inc. (CLS) in Saskatoon.
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Professor Gerhard (Gerd) Materlik, Chief Executive of Diamond Light Source, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).
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Prof David Delpy, Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), has praised Diamond's facilities and given support for Phase III investment.
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Scientists using Diamond Light Source have made a breakthrough in the battle against tooth decay, with research published in the leading Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB) on 29 April 2011.
