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)
![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)
![A diagram shows a curvy gray shape before (left) and after its shape is optimized by trimming away a section shown in green. A chart at center shows blue and red lines converging on an ideal target value over a number of simulation runs.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/ace3p_story_visual_sv_optimization_final.jpg?h=a85e9bba&itok=42zJjCdR)
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Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.
![Research associate Megan Mayer and graduate student Patrick Mitchell load a sample into a cryogenic electron microscope at SLAC.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/2018_0412_Cryo-EM-122_v2.jpg?h=2992ba0a&itok=aQiLru9h)
The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera’s focal plane has a surface area large enough to capture a portion of the sky...
![LSST camera focal plane](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/LSST_camera_focal_plane_v2.jpg?h=3bba9472&itok=Jxel6bOF)
Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.
![Identifying each tiny chemical step in photosynthesis could aid the development of renewable energy technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/photosystem-II_cover_pnas_bergmann_final-1400x768.jpg?h=6467ba0c&itok=7m3M7ino)
This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein, while docked with rhodopsin, a G protein-coupled receptor.
![This illustration shows arrestin, an important type of signaling protein](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/cover_artwork_qingping_final.jpg?h=d20b3caa&itok=emMjsppL)
This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus's main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO.
![SARS-CoV-2-NEMO](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/sars_cov2_story_la_v04.jpg?h=4e7703cc&itok=C7AunqIP)
SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module, 2.2-megapixel ePix10k X-ray camera.
![SLAC’s Chris Kenney holds a 16-module](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/ePix-cleanroom-1600px.jpg?h=e6d55ad7&itok=tS6BZ9wx)