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Many nanotechnology and biotechnology applications rely on how tiny metal particles arrange themselves on flat surfaces. These patterned ...
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Understanding the deformation of polycrystalline structural materials is the key to improving performance and reliability of complex engineering ...
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Transition metal oxides are an intriguing class of materials since it is possible to drastically modify their properties by changing their ...
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The impact earthquakes have on the planet’s surface is well documented. However, much less is known about what happens deep in the planet’s ...
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Researchers at Newcastle University’s Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences are regular users of Diamond’s MX beamlines. One of the ...
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Before we are born, each and every one of us is enveloped by membranes and fluid that ensure our safe development and protect us from the external ...
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Extending our knowledge of how magnetic materials behave on an atomic scale has led to considerable technological advances, particularly in the ...
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Scientists have been using both Diamond Light Source and the ISIS neutron source to get a better understanding of an important group of materials ...
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Highly anisotropic graphene materials such as aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests, oriented CNTs arrays have been universally considered as an ...
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Bacteria that develop resistance to drugs can cause great problems in the treatment of infections and diseases. Multi-drug resistance bacteria ...
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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 ...