An international collaboration among researchers from Nanjing University (China), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Germany) and the ALBA Synchrotron (Spain) has discovered new aspects regarding the microscopic magnetic mechanisms in cobalt nanostructures. This research will contribute to a better understanding of the magnetic exchange bias systems used for magnetic information storage devices, enabling the production of smaller hard disks with a higher information density. This is the first published paper with data collected at BOREAS beamline.
Professors Julio Bacarizo and Ana Cámara-Artigas, from the University of Almería, have resolved at atomic resolution crystal structures of the Thr98Asp c-Src SH3 domains mutant in complex with the high affinity peptide APP12. These protein structures are the first solved at atomic resolution in Alba. Information obtained at XALOC beamline could have implications in pathologies such as cancer, AIDS or osteoporosis.
The structures obtained at BL13-XALOC correspond to the complexes of LC8 homodimers (yellow and orange) with the phosphorylated (right, PDB ID 3ZKF) and non-phosphorylated (left PDB ID 3ZKE) versions of a Nek9 peptide.
Anna Rosell from the Neurovascular Research group at VHIR, Anna Roig from the Group of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and Eva Pereiro, responsible of the ALBA synchrotron light source, have obtained the first images of human endothelial stem cells by Transmission Soft X-ray Microscopy at ALBA Synchrotron in Cerdanyola del Vallès.
