Recent News
Staff Awards & Honors
Bioinformaticist receives early career research award
Released: May 14, 2012
EMSL user, Sam Payne, receives Early Career Research Award totaling $2.5 million over five years.
Proteomics identifies targets of ionizing radiation in a human skin model
Found unique phosphopeptides showing changes in response to dose
Released: May 03, 2012
Researchers revealed new knowledge about the effects ionizing radiation has on human skin by using mass spectrometry tools at EMSL to study a reconstituted human skin tissue model. The team’s results suggest that even very low doses of ionizing radiation activate cell-signaling pathways, resulting in altered protein phosphorylation and possibly altered protein function.
NWChem: A team approach
Teamwork and collaboration create a premier product
Released: April 26, 2012
An international consortium uses teamwork and collaboration to enhance EMSL’s NWChem, the Department of Energy’s premier open-source computational chemistry software package. A worldwide team of users have contributed many improvements to NWChem to give it unique capabilities no other software system offers.
EMSL's Molecular Bond Quarterly Newsletter
User spotlight, glass from the past informs decisions for the future
Released: April 26, 2012
In this issue, new instruments available at EMSL, ARRA funds support new discoveries, fiscal year 2011 peer reviewers recognized and EMSL science highlights. Read these stories and more in the spring issue of The Molecular Bond.
Redox ready
Cu-BTC proves redox capable, opens new doors for catalysis and gas storage
Released: April 24, 2012
The metal organic framework, Cu-BTC, is redox capable, and its ratio of Cu2+ to Cu+ can be controlled via atmosphere and temperature conditions. This new finding by an EMSL research team will open doors for gas storage and catalysis applications.
New metal alloy electrode designed for plus-sized ions
Tin, antimony, and carbon material increases sodium battery's capacity
Released: April 19, 2012
Working at EMSL, a PNNL research team studied a new battery anode made from a tin and antimony alloy that could be used to develop large-scale energy storage systems that will meet the demand requirements for storing and releasing electricity generated by wind farms.
Study dusts sugar coating off little-known regulation in cells
O-GlcNAc regulatory system adds complexity in cell regulation, could eventually provide new drug targets
Released: April 16, 2012
A team of researchers used instruments developed at EMSL to see tiny, tangled brain proteins. Their findings have dramatically increased what researchers know about a protein regulatory system linked to Alzheimer's disease.
Federal Stimulus Funds Amounted to a Shot in the Arm for Science
Released: April 12, 2012
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as well as others, were mention in a Seattle Times April 10th story on the federal stimulus funds. Of the nearly $900 million since 2009 in federal stimulus funds researchers in Washington State received, EMSL received $60 million of that to buy state-of-the-art microscopes, spectrometers and other instruments.
