SSRL allows to produce molecular images of genetic code transcription
Today SLAC celebrating SSRL 50th birthday with an event talking about 5 decades of synchrotron science and what the future looks like.
Here's a reminder of what SSRL and synchrotron lightsources bring to scientific research: Stanford professor Roger Kornberg received the 2006 Nobel-prize for the research he and his team did on RNA polymerase. It culminated in a molecular image of RNA polymerase, an important enzyme involved in reading the genetic code for all living organisms. It revealed the molecular details of transcription, where DNA's genetic blueprint is read and copied during the initial stages of protein synthesis.
We'll be publishing very soon a video looking at these 50 years of SSRL. You'll learn how such a facility is used to produce molecular images, and the type of research that is being done here.
To learn more about SSRL's history:
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/ssrltu...
To learn more about how synchrotrons work: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/resear...
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Video produced by Olivier Bonin / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
