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The following news release was originally issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory. This joint Air Force Research Laboratory – Case Western Reserve University (AFRL-CWRU) program makes use of the X-ray Footprinting of Biological Materials (XFP) beamline at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), as well as other Structural Biology beamlines at NSLS-II. The goal is to understand the structural interactions between candidate biosensors and biological molecules (biomarkers) linked with stress and fatigue in humans. The XFP beamline is operated by the CWRU Center for Synchrotron Biosciences in partnership with NSLS-II, and is part of an integrated group of resources for synchrotron structural biology located at NSLS-II, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE s Brookhaven National Laboratory. For more information about Brookhaven s role in this research, contact Cara Laasch, laasch@bnl.gov.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are automating the search for new materials to advance solar energy technologies.
A novel workflow published in
ACS Energy Letters combines robotics and machine learning to study metal halide perovskites, or MHPs thin, lightweight, flexible materials with outstanding properties for harnessing light that can be used to make solar cells, energy-efficient lighting and sensors. Our approach speeds exploration of perovskite materials, making it exponentially faster to synthesize and characterize many material compositions at once and identify areas of interest, said ORNL s Sergei Kalinin.
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As the fight against COVID-19 continues, scientists have turned to an unlikely source for a potentially effective treatment: tiny antibodies naturally generated by llamas.
While the world has welcomed the news of multiple vaccines against COVID-19, the search for effective treatments for those who contract the virus is ongoing. Now scientists are looking to what might seem to be an unlikely source: the South American llama.
Researchers are using the ultrabright X-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE s Argonne National Laboratory, to help turn naturally generated llama antibodies into potentially effective therapies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Antibodies are the immune system s natural defense against infection, and when extracted from blood, they can be used to design treatments and vaccines.
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