Cornelius Gati and other researchers were studying a protein thought to be important for the progression of tuberculosis when they made a strange discovery...
![Public Lecture poster titled Cryo-EM: Amazing 3D Views of Life’s Molecular Machines](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/publiclecture_sept2018_announcement-1.jpg?h=5f4fe203&itok=AwchmUtg)
Illustration
An artist’s depiction of a tiny pore in the crystalline shell of an ammonia-eating archaea microbe; surrounding proteins are shown...
![Artist's depiction of a tiny pore in an archaea's crystalline shell](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/images/artwork_s_layer_final.jpg?h=131411b1&itok=XqBJjWJf)
![Public lecture called A sparkle in the dark: the outlandish quest for dark matter](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/lectures_files/publiclecture_jan2019_full.jpg?h=98fc02fa&itok=ja14m9ii)
![Tuberculosis Protein New Discovery 2020 // Cornelius GATI](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/tCHkOwTm-qc_max.jpg?h=c673cd1c&itok=znSNGfNk)
Video
Sander Breur from SLAC’s EXO neutrino research group, describes the acute shortage ventilator project.
![SLAC scientists invent low-cost emergency ventilator](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/stillframe_KpfTOUhRE3A.jpeg?h=144d094f&itok=_y0304dA)
Photograph
Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
![Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/chitosanase_crystals.jpg?h=ef987c94&itok=8RoQVN9y)
![This image shows how SARS-CoV-2 Mpro recognizes and cuts NEMO based on the crystal structure determined using a powerful X-ray beam at SSRL Beam Line 12-2. (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/molecularstructureSARSNEMO.jpg?h=da114dbf&itok=E6dpiK24)
Animation
This animation shows how krypton (red) is removed from xenon gas (blue) by flowing the combined gases through a column...
![A blue cloud with red spots travels downward, passing gray spots. As it does, the red spots move downward faster.](/sites/default/files/xenon_removal_forfeature_v02.gif)
Photograph
Stanford’s Roger Kornberg received the 2006 chemistry Nobel for work on RNA transcriptase, shown on screens.
![Roger Kornberg received the 2006 chemistry Nobel for work on RNA transcriptase](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/slac-11-07-1649-b-v2.jpg?h=41cd9748&itok=kydm3dIH)
Photograph
A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder. The electrolyte will be fast-frozen into a...
![A battery's liquid electrolyte clings to small holes in a cryo-EM sample holder.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/cryoem_battery_sei_visuals_la_final.jpg?h=127267a3&itok=JwxZRRrm)
![Red molecules are sandwiched between a blue inner shell and purple outer shell.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/cryoem_cage_la_final.jpg?h=5a5fc591&itok=BRKZ_JYC)
![Dwarf Galaxy 3.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/dwarf-galaxy-discover-large.jpeg?h=328948d6&itok=z9IiRN7t)