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Scientists are deploying this state-of-the-art X-ray crystallography facility to study biological molecules related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Images reveal how some antibodies may block SARS-CoV-2 infection.

University of Alberta researchers worked with SLAC X-ray scientists to explore the potential of a feline coronavirus drug that may be effective against SARS-CoV-2.

Chandra Curry at the Matter in Extreme Conditions experimental hutch 6 at LCLS.

In this illustration, the pairs of red spheres are escaping oxygen atoms and purple spheres are metal ions. This new understanding could lead to new ways to minimize the problem and improve battery performance.

Illustration of oxygen atoms leaving a lithium-ion battery as lithium flows in alongside a battery whose energy is being sapped by this process

SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall building at sunrise with Stanford University Hoover Tower in the background.

Cryo-EM and SSRL training workshop at SLAC.

The results of a new scientific study reveal how photosynthetic reaction centers adapt to make light-driven reactions more efficient.

SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid

$SLAC staff scientist Alexander Reid, the first user of the lab's instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED).$

Its electron beams will drive the generation of up to a million ultrabright X-ray flashes per second.

This animation shows the results of a recent study at SLAC, in which researchers used a powerful beam of electrons to watch gold melt extremely rapidly after being heated by a laser pulse.

Illustration of how a single crystal sample of silicon deforms during shock compression on nanosecond timescales.

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SLAC’s new X-ray beamline aids COVID-19 research

Identifying COVID-19 antibodies for potential treatments

In a search for COVID-19 treatments, researchers pursue a drug used on cats

Chandra Curry working in the MEC hutch

Lithium-ion oxygen migration

SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Near Experimental Hall

Cryo-EM and SSRL workshop

Shapeshifting proteins provide electrons safe passage during photosynthesis

MeV-UED first user

SLAC fires up electron gun for LCLS-II X-ray laser upgrade

UED gold melting

MEC silicon