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  • Ames Lab, Iowa State researchers study the structure of drug resistance in tuberculosis

    A group of researchers led by Edward Yu, Ames Lab and Iowa State University scientist, has discovered the mechanism that allows drug resistant tuberculosis to defy treatment. The findings, published in the journal by the journal Nucleic Acids Research, a research team led by Yu describes the structure of a regulator that controls the expression of the multidrug efflux pump in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

     

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  • Former Ames Laboratory Science Intern Wins Prestigious Fellowship

    Former Ames Laboratory student intern Elliot Combs has won a prestigious national fellowship to help fund his Ph.D. studies. Combs, 2009 Ames Lab Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) student and 2011 Iowa State University chemical engineering graduate, recently learned he is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

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  • Ames Lab featured on PBS NOVA special, Hunting the Elements

    Ames Laboratory and several of its scientists were in the spotlight as the PBS television series NOVA aired a two-hour special, “Hunting the Elements,” on Wednesday, April 4. Here, Ames Lab senior physicist Paul Canfield explains some of the properties of rare earth elements.

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  • Ames Laboratory, ISU celebrate Shechtman's return to Ames

    Dan Shechtman, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, returned to Ames from Israel on Feb. 14 for the first time since the award was announced in early October. Shechtman, an Ames Lab researcher, held a news conference and photo session at The Ames Laboratory and later met with students during a reception in his honor at the ISU Memorial Union.

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  • Anderson talks lead-free solder on IPR's The Exchange

    Computers, smartphones, tablets – they’re ubiquitous in today’s society and many of them have one thing in common – the use of lead-free solder.  The Exchange host Ben Keiffer talks with senior metallurgist Iver Anderson of the Ames Lab about the technology that earns Iowa State University millions of dollars in royalties every year.

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  • Cutting corners to make superconductors work better

    Making superconducting nanocircuits with rounded corners will improve their performance, according to John R. Clem, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, and Karl K. Berggren, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • New Bug Eats Sulfates, Makes Two Kinds of Magnet

    A bacterium recently discovered near Death Valley has some very unusual properties according to a report published in the December 23 issue of Science magazine. While some ‘bugs’ are like migratory birds, making tiny magnets that they use to guide their navigation, this is the first bacterium to be found that makes two different kinds of magnetic particles.

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  • Ames Laboratory releases new version of process simulator interface software

    Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have released a new version of integration software that will help engineers develop greener power plants. The application, called VE-PSI 3.0, helps engineers design power plants more efficiently and at less cost by integrating large amounts of design and plant operations data in an integrated computational environment.

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  • Ames Laboratory's Shechtman wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    On December 10, Danny Shechtman, an Ames Laboratory and Iowa State Unversity scientist, was presented the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals. Shechtman, who is also a researcher at Technion in Israel, made his discovery in 1982 by identifying a material that had an "impossible" five-fold symmetry to its crystalline structure.  To find out more about Shechtman's discovery, his Nobel Prize selection, and Ames Lab's involvement in quasicrystal research, click on Read More.

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  • Canfield a guest editor for MRS Bulletin Superconductivity issue

    Ames Laboratory senior physicist Paul Canfield was a guest editor for the August issue of the Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin that was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity. Canfield, and co-editor David Larbalestier, assembed the authors for the issue, guided the writing and co-authored the introduction and overview to the issue.

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