Science Highlights

Approximately 1,700 scientists visit SSRL annually to conduct experiments in broad disciplines including life sciences, materials, environmental science, and accelerator physics. Science highlights featured here and in our monthly newsletter, Headlines, increase the visibility of user science as well as the important contribution of SSRL in facilitating basic and applied scientific research. Many of these scientific highlights have been included in reports to funding agencies and have been picked up by other media. Users are strongly encouraged to contact us when exciting results are about to be published. We can work with users and the SLAC Office of Communication to develop the story and to communicate user research findings to a much broader audience. 

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Effect of Chemical Pressure on the Charge Density Wave Transition in Rare-Earth Tritellurides RTe3

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Synthetic Antimicrobial Oligomers Induce Composition-dependent Topological Transition in Membranes

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Cooperation of Rab and Arl GTPase Family Members in Localization of the Golgin GCC185

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Structures of the GRP94-Nucleotide Complexes Reveal Mechanistic Differences between the Hsp90 Chaperones

Overview of the GRP94 structure
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The Structures of Synaptic Cell Adhesion Proteins Neuroligin-1 in Isolation and in Complex with Neurexin-1b Reveal Specific Protein-Protein and Protein-Ca2+ Interactions

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Structure of a Thiol Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticle at 1.1 Å Resolution

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Bridging the Gaps of High-Tc Superconductor

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Solvent Tuning of Properties of Iron-Sulfur Clusters in Proteins

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Proteins containing iron-sulfur clusters are ubiquitous in nature and catalyze one-electron transfer processes.

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MitoNEET is a Uniquely Folded Outer Mitochondrial Membrane Protein Stabilized by Diabetes Drugs

MitoNEET structure
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Femtosecond Time-Delay X-ray Holography

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We can work with users and the SLAC Office of Communication to develop the story and to communicate user research findings to a much broader audience. 

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