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Scientists make key finding underlying genetic stability

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered new insights into how two common proteins found in mannalian cells can cause chromosomes to fuse together–-mutations that can destroy cells or give rise to cancer.

Journal: Science
Funder: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sandia’s soil and groundwater chemical ‘sniffer’ may help protect the nation’s water supply

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A real-time gas- and water-quality monitoring system that consists of a miniature sensor array packaged in a weatherproof housing developed by the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories may become one tool in the effort to protect the nation’s water supply.

Sandia develops program to assess water infrastructure vulnerabilities

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

andia National Laboratories researcher Jeffrey Danneels has some answers about how water distribution systems in this country can remain secure.

Sandia-developed removable adhesive bonds and detaches with temperature changes -- New approach to epoxy adhesive relies on reversible chemistry

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Sandia National Laboratories research team has develope d a removable epoxy adhesive that makes bonding and detaching parts a matter of temperature change.

Nanotemplates for nanostructures

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Coffee beans spilled upon a table form no pattern—they're a mess—their distribution dictated by the laws of chance. The same was generally believed true of atoms deposited upon a substrate. The first vision of a peaceable kingdom in which deposited atoms form orderly, controllable 2-D nanopatterns has been observed by researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories.

First controllable 2D nanopatterns imaged by Sandia researchers — Nanotemplates for nanostructures

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first vision of a peaceable kingdom in which deposited atoms form orderly, controllable 2-D nanopatterns has been observed by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories.

Journal: Nature

Z-Beamlet image shows Z evenly compresses pellet

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In its first try as a Sandia National Laboratories diagnostic tool, the third-biggest laser on earth, Z-Beamlet, confirmed that Sandia’s Z machine — the most powerful laboratory producer of X-rays in the world —spherically compressed a simulated fusion pellet during a firing, or “shot,” of the giant accelerator

Sandia creates mechanized microfluidic device — Pac-Man-like microstructure interacts with red blood cells

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Silicon microteeth that open and close like jaws have been developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Microjaws fit in a microchannel about one-third the width of a human hair. When the jaws close, they trap a red blood cell. The jaws deform captured cells, and then, in less than the blink of an eye let the little things loose. The blood cells travel on, regain their former shape and appear unharmed.

Lab researcher's team shines in protein folding predictions

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

The protein folding puzzle – determining the3--D structure of a protein given the sequence of its amino acids – is one of the major unsolved problems in molecular biology. A Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist along with a colleague and his students were recently recognized as the most successful team in an annual worldwide assessment of progress in protein structure prediction.

Researchers find human's earliest ancestor yet

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of fossil bones and teeth belonging to the earliest human ancestors yet discovered – a hominid who lived in what is now Ethiopia between 5.2 and 5.8 million years ago.