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From left to right: a pollen grain collected at DESY, a diatom, and a cyanobacterium, all imaged using Compton X-ray Scattering Microscopy at PETRA III.
From left to right: a pollen grain collected at DESY, a diatom, and a cyanobacterium, all imaged using Compton X-ray Scattering Microscopy at PETRA III. (Image: ©DESY/CFEL)

Biological specimens imaged with X-rays without damage

A pollen grain showing the nanofoam within or a diatom with the individual geometric structures inside clearly visible: Using high-energy X-rays from the PETRA III ...

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The iSenseDNA team at the kick-off meeting in October at the University of Padua (Italy). (Photo: © Univ. Uppsala)

Large-scale project iSenseDNA launched

Understanding how a specific molecule behaves during complex biological processes is a challenge facing biomedical research, despite major biotechnological progress made in recent years. A ...

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Molecular water research for life

Water is key to life on our planet and plays a central role in human cells, clouds in the atmosphere, water-based catalysts in industry, and ...

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Group photo from left to right: Manuel Izquierdo (SXP, EuXFEL), Massimo Altarelli (former managing director EuXFEL), Reinhard Brinkmann and Wim Leemans (both DESY), Nicole Elleuche and Robert Feidenhans'l (both EuXFEL), Judith Pirscher (BMBF), Katharina Fegebank (Hamburg), Christian Harringa (DESY) and Matthias Wilmanns (EMBL) (Picture: © EuXFEL)

European XFEL celebrates 5 years of user operation

European XFEL has celebrated its fifth anniversary of user operation and began the commissioning of a new instrument in the presence of State Secretary Judith ...

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Fighting Chronic Diseases and Cancer

For the study, which has now been published in the journal Antioxidants, the team led by experimental physicist Florian Grüner of the University of Hamburg ...

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The paper's main author Vasundara Srinivasan at an X-ray set-up to test protein crystals in the lab. Credit: University of Hamburg, Susanna Gevorgyan (Credit: © University of Hamburg, Susanna Gevorgyan)

Natural substances show promise against coronavirus

Three natural compounds present in foods like green tea, olive oil and red wine are promising candidates for the development of drugs against the coronavirus. ...

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(Picture: ©denisismagilov - adobe.stock.com)

Quantum Physics in Proteins

A new analytical technique is able to provide hitherto unattainable insights into the extremely rapid dynamics of biomolecules. The team of developers, led by Abbas ...

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From left to right: Robert Feidenhans'l, Nicole Elleuche, Friederike Kampschulte, Katharina Fegebank. (Picture: ©European XFEL / Axel Heimken)

New accommodation for XFEL's global researchers

Katharina Fegebank, Senator for Research, Science and Equality in Hamburg, and Friederike Kampschulte, Head of the Science Department at the Ministry of Education, Science and ...

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In a massive X-ray screening, scientists identified promising candidates for drugs against SARS-CoV-2 (artist's impression). Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab

DESY X-ray lightsource identifies candidates for COVID

A team of researchers has identified several candidates for drugs against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 at DESY´s high-brilliance X-ray lightsource PETRA III. They bind to an ...

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Fotomontage: DESY/R. Schaaf, Atelier Disko

€ 105. M for DESY Innovation Factory

Science as a driver for innovation: DESY is building a technology and start-up centre in the heart of the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld site. ...

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