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Despite the fact that it is August😎 and most of our followers are probably spending their time on the beach🏖️, mountains 🏔 or travelling the world🌍 and having a bit of a deserved LinkedIn detox, we are super excited to announce that we've reached 20K followers!🎉 We would like to THANK YOU all for your interest in the ESRF! If you have any suggestion on content you'd like to see on LinkedIn, please send us a DM.📨

Scientists from CARBIOS and TBI - Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, Bio & Chemical Engineering have developed a biosourced plastic embedded with an enzyme that ensures rapid biodegradation and compostability, overcoming the hurdles of currently used plastics. They used the ESRF to solve the molecular structure of the enzyme. ESRF. Alain Marty , Chief Scientific Officer of Carbios, explains the long-term collaboration with the ESRF: “Since the early days of Carbios, TBI, IPBS-Toulouse (CNRS-UT3) (The Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology) and Carbios have collaborated with the ESRF as synchrotron radiation plays an important role in this research. In particular, in this article diffraction data helped us unveil the structure of the enzyme to understand better the relation between the structure of the enzyme and its function. The resulting enzyme engineering work leads to an efficient enzyme that allows the plastic to self-biodegrade at room temperature.” The results are published in Nature. ➡️https://lnkd.in/e-q-u6Mm

Analysis of two unique Jurassic fossil discoveries from the Isle of Skye (Scotland) have shown that mammals in the time of the dinosaurs grew more slowly and lived longer than mammals today. Synchrotron studies of the fossils at the ESRF's ID19 beamline contributed to the research. The findings are published in Nature Nature Portfolio Elsa Panciroli, lead author and Associate Researcher of Palaeobiology at National Museums Scotland , explains the importance of the research: “These fossils are among the most complete mammals from this time period in the world. They give us unprecedented insights into the lives of the first mammals in the time of dinosaurs."🦕 This research is a long-standing collaboration between the team and the ESRF. Many fossils have been discovered in the Isle of Skye and a selected few have been imaged at the ESRF. “Over the course of a single experiment at the ESRF, we acquired many data on very rare Jurassic animals, including mammals and lizards. This productive beamtime has resulted in several papers, with this Nature one being the fourth article published”, says Vincent Fernandez , paleontologist at the ESRF an co-author of the publication. ➡️https://lnkd.in/ePrhQaRy

Don't miss our #ExploreESRFbeamlines webinar. Thursday 25th July at 2PM (CET) "ID02 Time-resolved ultra small-angle X-ray scattering beamline " by Theyencheri Narayanan ESRF scientist in charge of ID02 https://lnkd.in/dREB4fTt

Congratulations to the team of scientists UCL Mechanical Engineering ESRF - The European Synchrotron who has, for the first time, mapped 2 whole human hearts in unprecedented 3D detail using a technique called HiP-CT. This new atlas of the heart, which benefits from the support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , can potentially lead to medical applications. The results are published in Radiology. https://lnkd.in/dXeTVA2T