Our paper with the title “Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Giant Mimivirus Particle with an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser” (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.098102) has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The article is featured in a news item in Nature and as a viewpoint by APS Physics. For links to press releases and more articles covering our publication please go to the section Press.

The BBC reports about today’s most powerful X-ray laser, the LINAC coherent Light Source (LCLS) at Stanford University (California). Video

Our article on “Imaging single cells in a beam of live cyanobacteria with an X-ray laser” (doi:10.1038/ncomms6704) has been published in Nature Communications. more...

Our article with the title “High-throughput imaging of heterogeneous cell organelles with an X-ray laser” (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.270) has been published in Nature Photonics.

We are organising this year’s RACIRI Summer School under the title “Imaging with X-rays and Neutrons for Life and Materials Sciences”. It is held between 24 – 31 August 2014. The local venue is Skogshem Wijk in the Archiepelago of Stockholm.
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Our article about “Automated identification and classification of single particle serial femtosecond X-ray diffraction data” (also known as “hit-finding”) has been published in Optics Express 22, pp 2497-2510 (2014). In an experiment which produced copious amounts of data, we use both algorithms analyzing diffraction images and time-of-flight spectroscopy to find when a particle is hit by the X-ray laser.

There is a news feature article on X-ray free electron lasers in Nature magazine describing the powerful X-ray lasers —Nature 505, pp 605 (2014). The article gives a good historical account of the challenges faced by the XFELs and the first exciting results obtained at the LCLS in Stanford. You can download the entire PDF here. This is part of a special issue dedicated to crystallography as “Crystallography turns 100″ — Nature 505, pp 585-716 (2014).