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University of Oxford researchers used X-ray lasers to watch isopenicillin N synthase build penicillin's beta-lactam ring, reporting fleeting intermediates in Nature Catalysis.
Imperial College researchers measured oxygen molecule by molecule during solar water splitting and found hematite diverts charge into side reactions until efficiency jumps to about 80 percent.
Researchers captured femtosecond snapshots of isopenicillin N synthase, showing how fungi assemble the beta-lactam ring used in antibiotic drugs.
A £1.5 million EPSRC grant lets Liverpool map battery and catalyst interfaces in real time with a new ultrafast laser lab at the Stephenson Institute.
Keele University will lead an eight-partner UKRI project to monitor bacterial plant diseases spreading toward British farms from continental Europe.
University of Reading scientists reported that violet-blue photodynamic treatment killed all 64 Campylobacter strains tested, including antibiotic-resistant types found on UK poultry.
