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Jay Keasling Receives Distinguished Scientist Fellow Award

Jay Keasling

A Detailed Look Inside Tsetse Flies

Image - An image from an X-ray microtomography scan of a female tsetse fly’s abdomen. The image was taken from an animation highlighting key aspects of the female reproductive system, including a milk gland used to feed developing larvae. View the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtC6ASkWcOo&feature=emb_logo. (Credit: Geoffrey Attardo/UC Davis)

X-Rays Reveal Architectural Clues to the Crush-Resistance of Diabolical Ironclad Beetles

Images - These images show the diabolical ironclad beetle (top left) and how its abdomen (top middle and right) contains an internal architecture (bottom) featuring puzzle piece-like joints (bottom left) that make it incredibly crush-resistant. (Credit: UC Irvine)

X-Ray Studies Key in Study Relating to Immune System-Signaling Protein

Photosynthesis Like a Moss

Infrared Beams Show Cell Types in a Different Light

Photo - From left to right: Ariz Polyzos, Edward Barnard, and Lila Lovergne, pictured here at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, are part of a research team that is developing a cell-identification technique based on infrared imaging and machine learning.

Light-Emitting Nanoparticles Could Provide a Safer Way to Image Living Cells

Image - Light emitted by nanoparticles injected into the mammary fat pads of a live mouse is imaged through several millimeters of tissue. This sequence shows how the light emitted by these laser-excited particles can be imaged through deep tissue two hours after injection (left), four hours after injection (center), and six hours after injection (right). (Credit: UC San Francisco)

Scientists Create Continuously Emitting Microlasers With Nanoparticle-Coated Beads

Image - At left, a tiny bead struck by a laser (at the yellowish spot shown at the top of the image) produces optical modes that circulate around the interior of the bead (pinkish ring). At right, a simulation of how the optical field inside a 5-micron (5 millionths of a meter) bead is distributed. (Credit: Angel Fernandez-Bravo/Berkeley Lab, Kaiyuan Yao)

Diamond ‘Spin-Off’ Tech Could Lead to Low-Cost Medical Imaging and Drug Discovery Tools

Photo - Microscopic images of diamond particles with nitrogen-vacancy defects. These samples, which exhibit a truncated octahedral shape, were used in experiments that sought new ways to tune and control an electronic property known as spin polarization. The scale bar at lower right is 200 microns (millionths of an inch). To the human eye, the pinkish diamonds resemble fine red sand. (Credit: Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley)

Tau-tally Microtubular!

4 Berkeley Lab-affiliated Scientists Elected as National Academy of Sciences Members

Photos - From left, Kristie Boering, Judith Campisi, Ehud "Udi" Isacoff, and Michael Manga.

In Pursuit of Perfect Chemistry: A Vision for Unifying Catalysis

Image - In a 2016 study, Berkeley Lab scientists used the bacterium Moorella thermoacetica in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products. (Credit: Berkeley Lab)