The XPRESS challenge is live 🏁🏁🏁! Use #AI to map brain wiring from X-ray images. Accepting submissions until Mar 30 - winning entries will be invited to present their work at @IeeeIsbi in sunny Cartagena 🇨🇴🌞🏖️! xpress.grand-challenge.org/arxiv.org/abs/2302.03819 (1/n)
#WorldAlzheimersDay What triggers the onset of Alzheimer's?
Marina Eckermann, a new ESRF post-doc, is focusing on astrocytes, a type of cells near amyloid plaques that has been overlooked in the past but that could play a role in the start and progression of Alzheimer's. (1/2)
How quickly a #battery🔋 electrode decays depends on properties of individual particles in the battery – at first.
Later on, the interaction of particles matters more, as scientists show in a report in @ScienceMagazine today.
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👏 Congratulations @APacureanu#ESRF & Schaefer @TheCrick for being awarded £2 million by @UKRI_News@wellcometrust for research on ‘Integration of functional & structural knowledge across scales to decipher information processing in the mammalian brain’
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High-resolution 3D study of #pollen at the ESRF reveals nanofoams are key to surviving mass extinctions 🌲🌲🌲🌲
It is the first time scientists have described a biological #nanofoam structure.
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With @NHM_London
Published today in @ScienceAdvances
With the cold weather🥶, watch your batteries! Storing rechargeable batteries 🔋 at sub-freezing temperatures ❄️ can crack the cathode and separate it from other parts of the battery.
The paper has made it to the cover of @AdvSciNews
@id16a@SLAClab
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A bit of our work on bees’ nests. Many thanks to ESRF beamlines BM05 and @id16a, as well as their staff, to the communication group, to @PassionEntomo for the 🐝 videos, to @OrsDragonfly3D, and to all my collaborators. The future is coherently bright for eco-friendly materials.
#PhD position featuring the next-generation aluminium alloys for 3D-printing affordable satellites is open to applications. Project partners include @IGaD_RWTH and @Constellium
Deadline for applications 31st March 2021
To apply: bit.ly/3tCr5MK#COFUND#Industry
Our March issue is live! This month we look at the topological structure of nacre, we examine the future of muon colliders, and we consider the ups and downs of virtual conferences go.nature.com/3vaRd20
#SpotlightonScience A study in @PNAS shows that nano-imaging of the brain’s communication cables at beamline @id16a could lead to better ways of diagnosing neuro-degenerative disease.
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Researchers have succeeded in the difficult task of imaging metals together with proteins at the synaptic level. Their findings have revealed the interaction of copper and zinc with the synaptic architecture of neurons elifesciences.org/articles/6…
ALT Neuronal dendrites with proteins labelled in green and red showing their responses to metals