探花直播super-resolution revolution

27 Feb 2015

Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they are beginning to watch molecular processes as they happen, and in three dimensions.

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Transmission electron microscopy image showing a molecular chaperone (the black dots) binding to thread-like amyloid-beta (A尾42)

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer鈥檚

16 Feb 2015

A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads to the death of brain cells, a new study shows. 探花直播research provides an effective basis for searching for candidate molecules that could be used to treat the condition.

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Large Hadron Collider

Firing up the proton smasher

16 Feb 2015

探花直播Large Hadron Collider is being brought back to life, ready for Run II of the 鈥渨orld鈥檚 greatest physics experiment鈥. Cambridge physicists are among the army who keep it alive.

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Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Planck reveals first stars were born late

05 Feb 2015

New maps from the Planck satellite uncover the 鈥榩olarised鈥 light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought.

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Celestial bodies

04 Feb 2015

Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for cancerous cells. This has led to new ways of speeding up image analysis in cancer research.

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