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A tool to better screen and treat aneurysm patients

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research by an international consortium, including a researcher from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, may help physicians better understand the chronological development of a brain aneurysm.

Journal: Stroke

A path toward more powerful tabletop accelerators

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Making a tabletop particle accelerator just got easier. A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small-area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed. Researchers hope the finding could bring about a new era of accelerators that would need just a few meters to bring particles to great speeds, rather than the many kilometers required of traditional accelerators.

Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

New details on microtubules and how the anti-cancer drug Taxol works

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have produced images of microtubule assembly and disassembly at the unprecedented resolution of 5 angstroms, providing new insight into the success of the anti-cancer drug Taxol and pointing the way to possible improvements.

Journal: Cell
Funder: National Institutes of Health

A glimpse into nature's looking glass -- to find the genetic code is reassigned

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It has long been assumed that there is only one 'canonical' genetic code, so each word means the same thing to every organism. Now, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of large numbers of exceptions from the canonical genetic code, published by a team of researchers from the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute in the May 23, 2014, edition of the journal Science.

Journal: Science
Funder: US Department of Energy's Office of Science

Confirmed: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

For the first time, astronomers have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star -- sitting 360 million light years away -- died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipeline, researchers caught supernova SN 2013cu within hours of its explosion.

Journal: Nature

Lighting the way to graphene-based devices

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have demonstrated a technique whereby semiconductors made from graphene and boron nitride can be charge-doped to alter their electronic properties using only visible light.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Giant telescope tackles orbit and size of exoplanet

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using one of the world's largest telescopes, a Lawrence Livermore team and international collaborators have tracked the orbit of a planet at least four times the size of Jupiter.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

All in the rotation

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have shed new light on a type of molecular motor used to package the DNA of a number of viruses, including herpes and the adenoviruses. Their findings could help in the development of more effective drugs and inspire the design of new and improved synthetic biomotors.

Journal: Cell
Funder: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Institutes of Health

Salt needed: Tolerance lessons from a dead sea fungus

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Some organisms thrive in salty environments by lying dormant when salt concentrations are very high. Other organisms need salt to grow. In the May 9, 2014 issue of Nature Communications, a team including DOE Joint Genome Institute researchers described the genome of a Dead Sea fungus. Understanding how organisms adapt to extremely salty environments could help improve salt tolerance in crops, laying the groundwork of understanding necessary to grow them in desert and saline environments.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Berkeley Lab develops nanoscope to probe chemistry on the molecular scale

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By combining atomic force microscopy with infrared synchrotron light, researchers from Berkeley Lab and the University of Colorado have improved the spatial resolution of infrared spectroscopy by orders of magnitude, while simultaneously covering its full spectroscopic range, enabling the investigation of variety of nanoscale, mesoscale, and surface phenomena that were previously difficult to study.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Department of Energy