A team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has unlocked the enzymatic synthesis process of rare sugars, which are useful in developing drugs with low side effects using a process more friendly to the environment. In a paper published in Structure, the research team reported the pioneering use of neutron

The 7th American Conference on Neutron Scattering (ACNS) was held in Knoxville, Tennessee, June 1–5, 2014 and drew 440 attendees. A Neutron News article has been published summarizing the meeting. A collection of photos from the conference can be found at the ORNL Neutron Sciences flickr site.