Diamond awarded £1.3m to help improve UK bioscience research techniques and equipment
Diamond has secured a strategic investment as part of the BBSRC ALERT programme funding for scientific instrumentation, improving access to equipment and research techniques for the UK’s bioscience community.
The £1.3m award will secure an advanced JUNGFRAU 9M detector to support Diamond Light Source’s Microfocus Macromolecular Crystallography beamline I24.
Diamond, the UK's national synchrotron light source science facility located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, said that this new generation of detector represents a leap forward in time-resolved structural biology research for synchrotron users.
The novel detectors allow for faster timescales than what is possible with the existing detectors in use – as fast as microseconds – which is invaluable to structural biologists because these are the timescales at which many enzyme reactions and other functions of proteins take place.
In a statement, Chris Schofield FRS, professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and co-investigator on the project, said: “Understanding how nature efficiently makes antibiotics and how antimicrobial resistance works benefits greatly from the ability to obtain time resolved structures of enzymes involved in these processes.
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