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Cancerous Traffic Jams

Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated that the malignant activity of a cellular protein system strongly linked to breast cancer can arise from what essentially are protein traffic jams. »

This Image Could Lead to Better Antibiotics

Berkeley Lab scientists have created an atomic-scale structure of a bacterial ribosome attached to a molecule that controls its motion. Somewhere in its twists and turns could be a weakness that a new antibiotic can target. »

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Inspiration for the Cyclotron
Cyclotron Concept/Demonstration
Evolution of the Cyclotron
Nobel Prize

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APEX Produces Superior Beams at a Million Pulses per Second

The APEX electron gun can fire sustained high-quality electron beams at a million pulses per second. Next goal is a beam bright enough for next generation light sources. »

Student Scientists Arrive for the Summer

The Lab's Center for Science and Engineering Education (CSEE) welcomed the first wave of a total of 91 summer interns from across the US who will be working with 119 mentors at the Lab for the next 8-10 weeks.

Polite Stewart graduated from high school at the ripe old age of 14, graduated from college with a physics degree at 18, and at 19, has taken a yearlong fellowship at the Advanced Light Source, gathering synchrotron x-ray data from Beamline 7.3.3. His dream is to go to graduate school in Japan to study physics in a different language. Go here to learn more about this gifted and ambitious employee.