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July 3, 2008 - University of California - Los Angeles
UCLA researchers clarify function of glucose transport molecule - (ALS, APS, SLS)
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have solved the structure of a class of proteins known as sodium glucose co-transporters (SGLTs), which pump glucose into cells. These transport proteins are used in the treatment of chronic diarrhea through oral rehydration therapy, saving the lives of millions of children each year. ...

June 30, 2008 - Imperial College London
Lights, camera, action! 'Molecular movies' to reveal the dynamic lives of proteins
Capturing moving images of tiny protein molecules is the aim of a new research project announced today at Imperial College London. The research will reveal, on extremely short timescales, the miniscule movements of proteins which help carry out important biological processes in people, animals, insects and plants. ...

June 30, 2008 - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water - (SPring-8)
The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence collected by a collaboration of researchers from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California, RIKEN SPring-8 synchrotron and Hiroshima University in Japan and Stockholm University in Sweden. ...

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July 4, 2008 - Nanowerk News
A breath of fresh air for electronics - (SPring-8)
... Now, researchers from RIKEN’s SPring-8 Center in Harima and their colleagues have uncovered fundamental properties of the electronic states in SrTiO3 that may be crucial to understanding the unusual electronic properties of this material. ...

July 1, 2008 - spectroscopyNOW.com
For he's a jolly good X-FELO
A new super bright type of X-ray source is being developed by scientists at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The proposed free electron laser oscillator (X-FELO) can produce X-rays that are one hundred million times brighter than any currently operating laboratory X-ray source. ...

June 25, 2008 - UPI
Study gains images at ultra-fast timescale - (FLASH)
U.S. scientists say they have observed condensed phase dynamics by capturing time-series images of a solid as it evolves at the nanoscale. ...

June 25, 2008 - CORDIS
Shedding new light on zeolites - (ESRF)
The secrets of zeolite minerals are slowly giving themselves up thanks to the intense scrutiny of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Zeolite mineral is often referred to as the super-mineral thanks to its multi-purpose uses. ...