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Neutron crystallography aids drug design
Researchers have used neutron crystallography for the first time to determine the structure of a clinical drug in complex with its human target enzyme. 10/9/12
LANL’s Richard Marquez honored with leadership, service award
Northern New Mexico College Foundation honors LANL’s Richard Marquez 10/4/12
Evolutionary theory, web-search technology combine for DNA analysis
Sequedex: bioinformatics breakthrough with clinical & environmental applications 10/4/12
LANL shatters records in first year of accelerated shipping effort
LANL set a record for transuranic waste shipments from the Lab to permanent disposal facilities. 10/3/12
Climate change cripples forests
A team of scientists concluded that in the warmer and drier Southwest of the near future, widespread tree mortality will cause forest and species distributions to change substantially.10/1/12
Los Alamos National Laboratory marks 20 years without full-scale nuclear testing
The test, code named “Divider,” was detonated on Sept. 23, 1992 as the last of an eight-test series called “Julin.”9/26/12
Los Alamos National Laboratory names Jeffrey Mousseau Associate Director of Environmental Programs
Mousseau currently works for the Lab’s transuranic waste disposal program. 9/18/12
Los Alamos provides HOPE for radiation belt storm probes
The HOPE analyzer is one of a suite of instruments that was successfully launched as part of the Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission.8/30/12
Los Alamos researcher named as American Chemical Society Fellow
Kristin Omberg named for her contributions to national security as a “technical leader in detecting and mitigating biological threats” and to the ACS community.8/30/12
Los Alamos physicist honored by American Physical Society
George Kyrala is among a team honored with the American Physical Society’s 2012 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research. 8/29/12
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