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Greg Hura and SIBYLS team receive Halbach Award at the ALS User meeting 2025

Greg Hura and the SIBYLS team received the 2025 Klaus Halbach award for their work on instrumentation for time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle X-ray scattering (TR-HT-SAXS). The Klaus Halbach Award is given for Innovative…
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ALS-ENABLE YouTube Channel

The ALS-ENABLE YouTube channel contains webinars and tutorials relevant to the structural biology beamlines at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron beamlines. Click here to view our channel.

Corie Ralston introduces X-ray footprinting at the 2025 ALS User Meeting

Corie Ralston gave a talk on X-ray footprinting at ALS-ENABLE beamline 3.3.1 at the LS-101 tutorial session on Tuesday, Aug. 12 as part of the ALS User meeting. The session…
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Jay Nix gives talk on Protein Cystallography

ALS-ENABLE beamline scientist Jay Nix gives talk on Protein Crystallography as  part of a tutorial session called “LS-101” at the 2025 ALS User Meeting. The workshop was designed to give students…
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Protein structure from ALS-ENABLE beamline is the 7000th from the ALS deposited into PDB

Data from beamline 5.0.2. helped solve the structure of an enzyme from Mycobacterium ulcerans (strain Agy99). When it was deposited into the Protein Data Bank (PDB) it marked a milestone of…
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Time-Resolved SAXS Screen of Small-Molecule Drug Candidates

SIBYLS made the news for work on time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) improving the screening of small-molecule drug candidates, and providing insight into…
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How X-Rays Could Make Reliable, Rapid COVID-19 Tests a Reality

A study led by Michal Hammel and Curtis D. Hodge suggests that a highly sensitive lateral flow assay – the same type of device used in home pregnancy tests –…
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Contributing to the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

ALS-ENABLE beamlines played a huge role in the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Chapentier. Through analysis of data collected at ALS Enable beamlines, Jennifer…
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Protein Sculpts DNA to Repair Harmful Damage

In this study, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) at ALS-ENABLE beamline 12.3.1 of Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source was used to see the shapes of individual DNA molecules providing an…
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