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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.
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Scientists from the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona have teamed up with Diamond Light Source to use a brilliant infrared microbeam to understand at the microscopic scale molecular processes affecting the decay or preservation of polychrome carved wood adorning churches and altarpieces depicting saints.
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During a visit to Oxfordshire on Tuesday 19th April, Nick Clegg MP, Deputy Prime Minister, toured Diamond, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility.
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A-level students from across the country were able to see science on a grand scale during visits to Diamond on 16th-18th March. They joined nearly 6,000 other students from 23 countries across the world taking part in annual Particle Physics Masterclasses this month.
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In 1962 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to Max Perutz and John Kendrew for determining the structures of two proteins, haemoglobin and myoglobin using a technique called X-ray diffraction.
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Scientists from Diamond Light Source, the Universities of Reading, Glasgow and the Natural History Museum in London have used the Diamond synchrotron to help determine whether worms can play a part in soil remediation. Their latest findings were published online in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science, met scientists, engineers and industrial partners at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, and formally inaugurated Diamond’s Phase III development, as part of his visit to Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire on Monday 14th March.
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Scientists have used Diamond Light Source and other synchrotrons to reveal the shape of the protein that gives human tissues their elastic properties. This discovery might lead to the development of new synthetic elastic polymers.
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Accelerator physicists working on the recently funded SuperB accelerator in Italy have been collaborating with Diamond’s accelerator physicists to test new techniques for low emittance tuning, which can potentially benefit both Diamond and the SuperB.
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Oxford MP Nicola Blackwood enjoyed a whirlwind tour of Diamond Light Source, and gained insights into of the nano-scale structure of materials as diverse as engineering components and protein molecules.
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Diamond Light Source and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are combining their detector systems expertise to push the boundaries of detector development. Diamond’s largest experimental station, the X-ray Imaging and Coherence beamline (I13) will make use of the advanced technology.
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This week, Diamond Light Source achieved its first full operating week (144 hours) continuous synchrotron light for researchers.
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In general, the antibiotics that are prescribed by your GP work. Complete the prescribed course and your symptoms have gone. But in some cases, the bacteria causing the illness have developed a resistance to the drugs. We need to find a way to improve these drugs so that they can overcome this resistance. But we need to know how our drugs work before we can improve them, and one way to do this is by producing a 3D molecular image of the drug/inhibitor in action. Knowing the 3D structure of ...
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I10, the Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments (BLADE) welcomed its first users this week, becoming Diamond’s 19th operational beamline.
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The University of Manchester has joined forces with Diamond Light Source to produce a world-class imaging facility.
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A new PhD student has been appointed to a joint programme with Diamond Light Source, the University of Oxford and Chroma Therapeutics. Victoria Arena will be based at the multi-disciplinary Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH), where she will undertake a three year PhD project in the area of structure-based drug design.
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On Thursday 2nd December 2010, leading scientists and policy makers gathered at Diamond Light Source for the official opening of a unique new research station that can create molecular-scale 3D images of large objects such as aerospace and engineering components, and explore their structures in atomic-scale detail.
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On Friday 19th November, over 100 students from across Oxfordshire and beyond attended a careers day that focused on the wide range of exciting opportunities that exist for engineers in the UK.
