New SPIN-Lab at Imperial
LCN Professor Sandrine Heutz has been awarded £2 million from the EPSRC to fund a new state-of-the-art hub of magnetic characterisation SPIN lab in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. The facility includes equipment for the study of strongly...
Synthetic ‘virus’ to kill bacteria
A synthetic ‘virus’ that kills bacteria on first contact has been developed by LCN and National Physical Laboratory researchers (NPL). The study, published in Nature Communications, shows how newly designed proteins can be used to build tiny hollow shells that emulate...
Revealing the Structure of Human Chromosomes and Nucleus in Three Dimensions
When we talk about chromosomes, the familiar images with an X-shape would probably flash into our minds. Did you ever think that the chromosomes could be in other shapes, not the X-shape, with an organized structure? A team led by LCN researchers, Prof. Ian Robinson...