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Showing releases 1-25 out of 33.
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
2 Berkeley Lab scientists named AAAS Fellows Susan Celniker of the Life Sciences Division and Wim Leemans of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been named 2012 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 
US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 27-Nov-2012
The installed price of solar photovoltaic systems in the US continues to decline at a rapid pace The installed price of solar photovoltaic power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2011 and through the first half of 2012, according to the latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an annual PV cost-tracking report produced by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Contact: Allan Chen
Public Release: 26-Nov-2012
 Physical Review LettersModeling the breaking points of metallic glasses Metallic glass alloys (or liquid metals) are three times stronger than the best industrial steel, but can be molded into complex shapes with the same ease as plastic. These materials are highly resistant to scratching, denting, shattering and corrosion. Mathematical methods developed by a Berkeley Lab scientists will help explain why liquid metals have wildly different breaking points. Contact: Linda Vu
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Department of Energy's ESnet rolls out world's fastest science network The US Department of Energy's (DOE) ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) is now operating the world's fastest science network, serving the entire national laboratory system, its supercomputing centers, and its major scientific instruments at 100 gigabits per second -- 10 times faster than its previous generation network.
Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Jon Bashor
Public Release: 13-Nov-2012
Astronomy & AstrophysicsBOSS quasars unveil a new era in the expansion history of the universe Using the "Lyman-alpha forests" of tens of thousands of quasar spectra, the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has measured the large-scale structure of the early universe for the first time. No other technique can reach back over 10 billion years to probe baryon oscillations at a time when the expansion of the universe was still decelerating and dark energy was yet to turn on.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, SDSS-III Participating Institutions, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 12-Nov-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesA better route to xylan JBEI researchers have identified a gene in rice plants whose suppression improves both the extraction of xylan and the overall release of the sugars needed to make biofuels.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Nov-2012
NatureMore bang for the biofuel buck Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that a fermentation process used in World War I to make cordite for bullets and artillery shells, in combination with a modern palladium catalyst could produce gasoline, diesel or jet fuel from the sugars found in biomass.
Energy Biosciences Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 1-Nov-2012
Cell ReportsBerkeley Lab scientists help develop promising therapy for Huntington's disease There's new hope in the fight against Huntington's disease. Berkeley Lab scientists have helped design a compound that suppresses symptoms of the devastating disease in mice. The compound is a synthetic antioxidant that targets mitochondria, an organelle that serves as a cell's power plant. Oxidative damage to mitochondria is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. Contact: Dan Krotz
Public Release: 31-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFolding funnels key to biomimicry Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that a concept widely accepted as describing the folding of a single individual protein is also applicable to the self-assembly of multiple proteins. Their findings provide important guidelines for future biomimicry efforts, particularly for device fabrication and nanoscale synthesis.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Physical Review LettersMeasuring Table-Top Accelerators’ State-of-the-Art Beams Accurate tests of the beam quality of laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) assume new importance with the approaching advent of the one-meter-long, 10-billion-electron-volt Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), bringing the promise of "table-top accelerators" closer to realization. Accelerator scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have devised novel techniques for characterizing extraordinarily short beam pulses in the complex environment of LPAs, including the metric known as slice-energy spread. Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
ACS Synthetic BiologyTraining your robot the PaR-PaR way PaR-PaR, a simple high-level, biology-friendly, robot-programming language developed by researchers at JBEI and Berkeley Lab, uses an object-oriented approach to make it easier to integrate robotic equipment into biological laboratories. Effective robots can increase research productivity, lower costs and provide more reliable and reproducible experimental data.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 22-Oct-2012
Physics Review LettersState-of-the-art beams from table-top accelerators "Table-top accelerators" – laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) that propel electron pulses to high energies within a few centimeters – promise far less expensive future accelerators with far less environmental impact than today's conventional machines. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have devised novel methods to test the quality of uniquely challenging LPA beams. Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Environmental Health PerspectivesElevated indoor carbon dioxide impairs decision-making performance Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) can significantly impair people's decision-making performance. The results were unexpected and may have particular implications for schools and other spaces with high occupant density.
State University of New York
Contact: Julie Chao
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
PLOS ONENew insights into how genetic differences influence breast cancer risk from low-dose radiation Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have identified tissue mechanisms that may influence a woman's susceptibility or resistance to breast cancer after exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation, such as the levels used in full-body CT scans and radiotherapy. Contact: Dan Krotz
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Nature MaterialsAnother advance on the road to spintronics Using a new technique called HARPES, for Hard x-ray Angle-Resolved PhotoEmission Spectroscopy, Berkeley Lab researchers have unlocked the ferromagnetic secrets of dilute magnetic semiconductors, materials of great interest for spintronic technology.
US Department of Energy Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 10-Oct-2012
Nature ChemistryThe best of both catalytic worlds Berkeley Lab researchers have combined the best properties of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts by encapsulating metallic nanoclusters within the branched molecular arms of dendrimers. The results are heterogenized homogeneous nanocatalysts that are sustainable and feature high reactivity and selectivity.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 8-Oct-2012
Nature MethodsA welcome predictability Berkeley Lab researchers have developed an adapator that makes the genetic engineering of microbial components substantially easier and more predictable.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Physical Review LettersA clock that will last forever Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever or a device that opens new dimensions into the study of quantum phenomena such as emergence and entanglement. Berkeley Lab researchers have proposed a space-time crystal based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb repulsion of particles that carry the same electrical charge.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Berkeley Lab sensors enable first light for the dark energy camera Mounted on a telescope high in the Andes, the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) saw first light September 12. DECam's half-billion-pixel focal plane is made of Berkeley Lab CCDs, invented and developed by scientists and engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and descended from sensors developed for high-energy physics. Highly sensitive to the near-infrared region of the spectrum, Berkeley Lab CCDs are an essential component of the most powerful dark-energy survey instrument yet made.
Department of Energy Office of Science, National Science Foundation, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 14-Sep-2012
eLifeBerkeley Lab scientists create first 3-D model of a protein critical to embryo development Berkeley Lab researchers have constructed the first detailed and complete picture of a protein complex that is tied to human birth defects as well as the progression of many forms of cancer. Knowing the architecture of this protein, PRC2, should be a boon to its future use in the development of new and improved therapeutic drugs.
National Institutes of General Medical Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Jay Keasling wins Heinz Award Jay Keasling, Berkeley Lab Associate Director for Biosciences and leading authority on synthetic biology who has engineered microbial "factories" to manufacture a frontline antimalarial drug and biofuel substitutes for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, has won a 2012 Heinz Award. Presented by the Heinz Family Foundation, the award carries with it a cash prize of $250,000.
Heinz Family Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Journal of Clinical InvestigationProtein linked to therapy resistance in breast cancer Berkeley Lab researchers have identified the FAM83A protein as a possible new oncogene and linked it to therapy resistance in breast cancer. This discovery helps explain the clinical correlation between a high expression of FAM83A and a poor prognosis for breast cancer patients, and may also provide a new target for future therapies.
US Department of Energy, Office of Science, NIH/National Cancer Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
ScienceSalt seeds clouds in the Amazon rainforest Analysis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source was a key contributor to the discovery, by a team led by the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, that potassium salts emitted into the Amazon rainforest biosphere during the night by plants and fungi are the minuscule particles on which organic compounds condense to form cloud nuclei – the seeds of mist and clouds that each day form anew over the jungle.
Max Planck Socuiety, US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
ScienceRust never sleeps A multi-institutional team led by scientists at Berkeley Lab have directly observed electron hopping in iron oxide particles, a phenomonon that holds huge significance for a broad range of environment- and energy-related applications.
US Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Cancer Institute
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesForcing the molecular bond issue Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry developed a first-of-its-kind model for providing a comprehensive description of the way in which molecular bonds form and rupture. This model enables researchers to predict the "binding free energy" of a given molecular system, a key to predicting how that molecule will interact with other molecules.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science
Contact: Lynn Yarris
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