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On September 6th, the solenoid from the CLEO detector was removed from the area known as L-Zero at Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, the former interaction point of electron and positron colliding beams.

It is Summer, which means school is out! Teachers are not really requesting equipment from the Lending Library, so what goes on with this program during the summer months?

A new CHESS user group, attending our 1st XES User Meeting workshop in June 2015, has published results from data collected during that visit!

Eddy Arnold of Rutgers University has been studying the HIV virus for a long time. A frequent user of CHESS, Arnold has been using the technique of X-ray crystallography to investigate the structure of HIV proteins and learn more about inhibitors of those proteins which might lead to drugs to fight AIDS. His efforts have been reported here several times (1, 2).

Mitochondrial cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) binds to cytochrome c (Cc) to break down hydrogen peroxide to water. This reaction is a series of steps that involves heme-oxygen chemistry and long-range electron transfer (ET) (Figure 1).

Better pharmaceuticals are out of this world: A new crystallization plate, developed and tested at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, or CHESS, hitched a ride to outer space and is helping a major drugmaker learn about protein structure.

A Cornell-led research team has developed a way of combining the large energy-storage capacity of batteries with the superior charge-discharge rate of supercapacitors to come up with a powerful new electrical energy storage (EES) device.

In last month’s eNewsletter, CHESS Director Joel Brock gave an overview of the CHESS-U project and how important the six summer science workshops were to help define the science frontiers an upgraded CHESS will serve.