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Under the three-year DeNOVO project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other institutions will apply high-performance computing and AI to push the boundaries of antibody design.
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Under the three-year DeNOVO project, LLNL and other institutions will apply high-performance computing and AI to push the boundaries of antibody design. 

On Sept. 11, 2001, the collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City released a toxic plume, as seen in this photo taken from aboard the International Space Station.
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In a study published in PNAS Nexus, LLNL researchers described how a new deep learning model is capable of predicting toxic plume behavior in just a few minutes. 

The Autonomous Alloy Prediction and EXperimentation (APEX) platform aims to accelerate the alloy-discovery process by leveraging robotics and machine learning to design, build and test samples without human intervention. LLNL robotics and materials engineering intern Andre Fatehi monitors the APEX platform during an experimental test run.
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LLNL is partnering with Cornell University to build the Autonomous Alloy Prediction and EXperimentation (APEX) platform for 3D printing, grinding, polishing and characterizing alloy samples.

From left: chemists Brian Mayer and Katelyn Mason and biologist Todd Corzett observe the operation of the robot that independently executes the acetylchlolinersterase assays the team uses to assess Novichok inhibition and to discover new oxime antidotes for Novichok poisoning.
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LLNL scientists and Purdue University collaborators develop and demonstrate a high-throughput, automated mass spectrometry platform.

LLNL and ELI began their partnership with the L3 HAPLS laser system, which LLNL built and delivered, and ELI now operates.
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LLNL and the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding that builds on their existing strategic collaboration for scientific research and laser innovation.

The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser was used to measure the structure of liquid carbon for the first time.
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In a recent study, published in Nature, an international team including LLNL researchers experimentally measured the structure of liquid carbon for the first time.

As described in a recent paper published by Science, a new cancer drug candidate developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, BBOT (BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics) and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research has demonstrated the ability to block tumor growth without triggering a common and debilitating side effect.
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A new cancer drug candidate developed by LLNL and collaborators demonstrates the ability to block tumor growth without triggering a common and debilitating side effect.

Schematic illustration of the experimental setup. A beryllium capsule (yellow) is compressed, heated and probed by an X-ray source (pink). The scattered photons (purple) are collected by a detector (black). The green dots represent the beryllium ions and the blue-red clouds their electrons.
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LLNL and collaborators have succeeded in describing warm dense matter much more accurately than before using a new computational method. 

Under cryogenic conditions, a team from SLAC and LLNL used X-rays to trigger decomposition and measure the structure of high explosive molecules.
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In a new study LLNL researchers and collaborators triggered a slow decomposition of a high explosive and measured the effects on the molecules within it. 

A “one pot,” light-based 3D printing process developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is addressing a longstanding challenge in additive manufacturing: how to fabricate suspended or overhanging features without cumbersome scaffolding requiring manual removal, a key hurdle to widespread adoption of Digital Light Processing printing technologies.
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LLNL researchers develop a novel 3D printing technique that uses light to build complex structures, expanding possibilities in multi-material additive manufacturing.