BNL Receives Grant for Life Science Studies

October 27, 2014

Brookhaven Lab team members who will run the new Life Science and Biomedical Technology Research Resource (LSBR) at NSLS-II.

Much of our understanding of how living things function comes from knowledge of structures – atomic details of enzymes that catalyze the processes of life, the receptors that are docking stations for viruses and messenger chemicals, and the nucleic acids DNA and RNA that carry genetic blueprints for building cellular machinery, to name a few. To give scientists unprecedented access to these structural details, a new grant just awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will fund the operations of a suite of powerful experimental tools at Brookhaven Lab.

The tools, being built with a previous award from NIH in 2010, are being installed at three beamlines at the NSLS-II, the nation’s newest and most advanced state-of-the-art synchrotron research facility and a DOE Office of Science User Facility, nearing completion at Brookhaven. The new five-year grant will create the Life Science and Biomedical Technology Research Resource (LSBR) to operate these new stations at NSLS-II and to develop new and improved technologies that will enable researchers to address challenging biological questions more effectively.

To learn more about the grant, visit:  www.bnl.gov/ps/news/news.php?a=11666

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