Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new process for determining the structure of proteins, which relies on an intense beam of light generated at the Advance Light Source (ALS) facility also on site - and shortens the typical time required to identify unknown biomolecules from years to just weeks.

In an article posted online at Ars Technica, author Chris Lee discusses new advances in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) that may have untold possibilities.