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September 28, 2016
Press Release
X-rays Reveal New Path In Battle Against Mosquito-borne Illness
SLAC’s X-ray laser provides clues to engineering a new protein to kill mosquitos that carry dengue and Zika.
May 5, 2016
Press Release
Scientists Watch Bacterial Sensor Respond to Light in Real Time
High-speed X-ray camera reveals ultrafast atomic motions at the root of organisms’ ability to turn light into biological function.
February 10, 2016
Press Release
SLAC X-ray Laser Turns Crystal Imperfections into Better Images of Important Biomolecules
A new study with the LCLS X-ray laser could change the way researchers take atomic-level snapshots of important biological machineries, potentially affecting research in drug development, clean energy production and many more areas.
January 29, 2016
News Feature
Tiniest Particles Shrink Before Exploding When Hit With SLAC’s X-ray Laser
This surprising finding has potentially broad implications, from X-ray imaging of single particles to fusion research.
December 8, 2015
News Feature
Innovation Boosts Study of Fragile Biological Samples at SLAC's X-ray Laser
Researchers at SLAC have found a simple new way to study very delicate biological samples – like proteins at work in photosynthesis and components of protein-making machines called ribosomes – at the atomic scale using SLAC's X-ray laser.
November 9, 2015
News Feature
Winning Photos from the 2015 SLAC Physics Photowalk
The SLAC Photowalk took a group of 17 photographers, both amateur and professional, behind the scenes to photograph SLAC's world-class science facilities, including the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).
September 16, 2015
News Feature
Q&A: Biologist Describes Milestone in Watching Proteins Boogie
Using SLAC's X-ray laser, researchers have for the first time directly observed myoglobin move within quadrillionths of a second after a bond breaks and the protein releases a gas molecule.
Image - Ilme Schlichting (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
September 1, 2015
News Feature
Global Team Seeks Individual X-ray Portraits of Active Viruses, Bacteria and Cell Components
A major international effort at SLAC is focused on improving our views of intact viruses, living bacteria and other tiny samples using the brightest X-ray light on Earth.
Image - Researchers discuss technical details and monitor the performance of a single particle imaging experiment conducted by a global scientific collaboration in late July and early August at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser.
August 31, 2015
News Feature
Q&A: Researchers Explain a Strange High-Intensity Result at SLAC's X-ray Laser
In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists got a textbook-worthy result that may change the way matter is probed at X-ray free-electron lasers.
The Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser at SLAC
July 22, 2015
Press Release
Long-sought Discovery Fills in Missing Details of Cell 'Switchboard'
A biomedical breakthrough reveals never-before-seen details of the human body’s cellular switchboard that regulates sensory and hormonal responses.

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