Scientists Take First X-ray Portraits of Living Bacteria at the LCLS
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Researchers working at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have captured the first X-ray portraits of living bacteria. This milestone, reported in the Feb. 11 issue of Nature Communications, is a first step toward possible X-ray explorations of the molecular machinery at work in viral infections, cell division, photosynthesis and other processes that are important to biology, human health and our environment.