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Researchers from Uppsala University have identified a molecule that can be developed into a drug to treat COVID-19. The molecule was discovered by using structure-based virtual screening and has a strong ability to inhibit both SARS-CoV-2 replication and the previously known variants of the coronavirus. This research was a part of the SciLifeLab and KAW
Your car gets hit by another vehicle, and the steel in its construction is deformed by the impact. The steel isn’t just designed to be strong enough to protect you. It also gets stronger because of the impact. It all has to do with the different arrangements that the atoms inside the steel can assume
Image: The chip developed by researchers during the project. Credit: Saketh Ram Mamidala Researchers from Lund University benefitted from MAX IV laboratory to find solutions to the long-standing technological challenge: the von-Neumann bottleneck. After nearly year-long research during the pandemic, they successfully integrated the processor and memory onto a single vertical nanowire in a 3D
ForMAX is the 15th beamline to come online at MAX IV. A large part of the research to be conducted at the beamline will promote the development of new materials and speciality chemicals from renewable forest resources. ForMAX is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and industrial partners through the Treesearch consortium. Half
In a study combining structural biology, biochemical and genetic approaches, scientists showed that plant cell-surface receptors employ a mechanism for error correction responsible for the control of receptor activation and signaling select bacterial symbionts. This demonstration opens the door to potentially manipulating such receptors’ binding sites in legumes and other organisms in the future. Cell-surface
By growing superlattices consisting of ferroelectric and non-ferroelectric transition metal oxides and releasing them from their underlying substrates, researchers explore polarization patterns in curved geometries. Complex transition-metal oxides are often sensitive to strain and may display very different properties if their lattice is compressed or extended. This is especially true of ferroelectric materials, such as
MAX IV’s board has decided on Professor Olof Karis as acting director of MAX IV. His start date will be decided shortly and refers to a one year’s appointment. Olof Karis comes most recently from Uppsala University, where he has been head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy since 2015. He has a broad
After leading the MAX IV Laboratory for three and a half years, Ian McNulty has decided to leave his position as director of the facility. He will stay for a transitional period until a new director takes office. The work of recruiting a new director for the laboratory has begun, and a decision will soon
Ganciclovir, a regular medicine used to treat human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infections, was found less efficient when reacting to human’s NUDT15 enzyme — based on a recent BioMAX study. This finding gives further insight into pharmaceutical treatments’ efficacy in HCMV cases. Although being regarded as a common disease, HCMV infections might cause severe consequences for immunocompromised
Mantis shrimp specimen used for the experiment carried out at DanMAX (Thorbjørn Christensen,12/10/2021) Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, intrigue humans due to their beauty but also fierce predatory behavior. While some species of mantis shrimp have a limb that resembles a spear to pierce through their prey, others such as the peacock mantis shrimp, instead possess