The research shows for the first time that PET scans can track the progressive stages of Alzheimer’s disease in cognitively normal adults, a key advance in the early diagnosis and staging of the neurodegenerative disorder. Berkeley Lab’s William Jagust is the study’s principal investigator.
Raymond Weitekamp of Cyclotron Road will be working with Arman Shehabi and Steve Selkowitz of the Energy Technologies Area to develop a low-cost, heat-reflective paintable coating for energy efficient windows. The technology relies on a material called a bottlebrush polymer, which, as Weitekamp explains, are like gummy worms.
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists will play a role in WFIRST, a new NASA space telescope project exploring dark energy, alien worlds and the evolution of galaxies, galaxy clusters and large-scale structure of the universe.
An international team that includes researchers from Berkeley Lab has captured the most precise — and puzzling — energy measurements yet of ghostly particles called reactor antineutrinos produced at a nuclear power complex in China.
Scientists have for the first time reengineered a building block of a geometric nanocompartment that occurs naturally in bacteria. The new design provides an entirely new functionality that greatly expands the potential for these compartments to serve as custom-made chemical factories.
A newly upgraded camera that incorporates light sensors developed at Berkeley Lab is one of the best cameras on the planet for studying outer space at red wavelengths too red for the human eye to see.
Omar Yaghi led research that created the first three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads. The COFs have significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency, and reversibility over previous COFs prized for their potential to capture and store carbon dioxide and then convert it into valuable chemical products.
The $2.4 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will fund the development of compact free electron lasers that will serve as powerful, affordable X-ray sources. This new technology could lead to portable, high-contrast X-ray imaging to observe chemical reactions, visualize the flow of electrons, or watch biological processes unfold.
