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Beginning to see dinosaurs, we were jealous it was your student who found it and not yourself? not at all. it is fantastic, sometimes the right person has to be the one to make that type of discovery, robert is one of these remarkable people, you could sit in the middle of a field and at 400 paces he will say doesn�*t that look strange, let us have a closer look, and i think it might be and he is usually right. i love working with people like that, when he says what can we do with it next? let...

With 2022 marking 15 years of Diamond Light Source delivering innovative science to the worldwide science community and also 20 years since being set-up, the Harwell-based facility is celebrating its double anniversary by revealing plans for Diamond-II, which has recently been granted preliminary funding. Click to read more...

In order to beat the global crisis that has erupted due to plastic waste, scientists have taken an important step in developing nature-based solutions.

As part of the UK/US Bottle Consortium project to tackle plastic recycling and upcycling, scientists have used Diamond’s macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamline I03 to characterise an enzyme capable of breaking down terephthalate (TPA), one of the chemical building blocks of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, widely used in-single use items such as drinks bottles. Click to read more...

With 2022 marking 15 years of Diamond Light Source delivering innovative science to the worldwide science community and also 20 years since being set-up, the Harwell-based facility is celebrating its double anniversary by revealing plans for Diamond-II, which has recently been granted preliminary funding. Click to read more...

Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis.   They have characterised ...

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Scientists have taken an important step in developing nature-based solutions to beat the global crisis that has erupted due to plastic waste.

Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis.

Researchers who assisted in pioneering the utilization of enzymes to break down plastic have taken a significant next step in engineering nature-based solutions to the plastics crisis worldwide.