Caught in the Actinium
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Berkeley Center for Structural Biology beamline scientists contributed their expertise to a structural study of the radioactive metal actinium led by the Chemical Sciences Division’s Rebecca Abergel.
More »Berkeley Center for Structural Biology beamline scientists contributed their expertise to a structural study of the radioactive metal actinium led by the Chemical Sciences Division’s Rebecca Abergel.
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More »After years of work, an international team found evidence that a once-independent nitrogen-fixing microbe has become a permanent resident within algae cells.
More »Cheryl Kerfeld’s laboratory, which operates at both Michigan State University and Berkeley Lab, teamed up with researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Delaware to take a first step toward creating artificial cells that lack a lipid membrane.
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