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•    Bacterial infections can be lethal and are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Six million people dye of blood poisoning (sepsis) every year.  •    The use of neutrons to analyse complex structures on the surface of E.coli could reveal how bacteria interact with their surroundings…

The integral membrane protein MsbA (blue) embedded in a ‘semi-transparent’ membranous nanodisc (grey). The nanodisc itself is, through selective deuteration, rendered invisible in SANS experiments that focus on the conformation of the protein in its native context. …

Key binding characteristics of a sugar-binding protein associated with heart disease and breast cancer defined for the first time, guiding future drug developmentResearchers pinpoint hydrogen-bonding interactions in the C-terminal carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-3 (galectin-3C) for the first time using neutron crystallographyThese detailed observations will inform future drug design f…

A high-precision experiment led by Vienna's Technical University (TU Vienna) has set its sights on pinpointing the so-far hypothetical "symmetron fields" using the PF2 ultra-cold neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France. The existence of symmetrons could provide an explanation …

9th July 2018: Grenoble, France  – the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) team up with leading European space companies OHB System AG and MT Aerospace AG to tackle industry challenges. They join forces to advance the characterisation of aerospace materials and make fabrication processes more efficient by probing matter with x-rays and neutrons.Space ex…

The League of advanced European Neutron Sources, LENS, hopes to guide and advocate for the European neutron user community in this current period of transition and optimism catalysed by the advent of the world’s most powerful spallation source, ESS.The forthcoming establishment of a new strategic consortium of European neutron sources was announced on 22 June 2018 in Brussels. The League of advan…

The PSND2018 (International workshop on Position Sensitive Neutron Detectors) took place at FZJülich in May. The most recent detector development carried out at the ILL has been presented.

It was with great pleasure that we were able to welcome Madame Frédérique Vidal, Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation to the EPN campus on 13 June 2018. Shortly after the arrival of the minister's group at the ESRF, Professor Helmut Schober, Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin, had the honour of presenting the ILL to the Minister and to the assembly of guests invited for this…

Today, 18 May, the Institut Laue-Langevin had the honour and the pleasure of welcoming Mona Nemer, the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, who was visiting Grenoble and the EPN campus. She was accompanied by Yannick Neuder, vice-president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region with responsibility for higher education, research, innovation and European funds, and by Geneviève Fioraso, former French Minis…

A neutron diffraction pattern from a crystal of the PKG II enzyme binding domain with an activator bound, collected using the LADI-III beamline at the Institut Laue-Langevin. Credit:Blakeley & Kovalevsky. Enzyme associated with stomach cancer and osteoporosis s…

E=mc2 : Michael Jentschel and Klaus Blaum explain why the most famous equation of physics needs checking — and how to do it. A Nature Physics publication.

The helix structure of BACOVO: the oxygen atoms, represented in red, are organized in octahedra around the cobalt atoms, located at their center. The blue arrows represent the small moments carried by the cobalt atoms, ordered antiferromagnetically along the helical chain. © CEA/CNRS/UGA …