In this study published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications, a team of researchers from Centre for Programmable Biological Matter (Durham University), Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology and NSRC SOLARIS lead by prof. Jonathan Heddle designed a programmable artificial protein cage build from TRAP protein, that is sensitive to pH and can be disassembled on demand.

In a study published in Nucleic Acids Research, a team from the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB), led by Prof. Janusz Bujnicki, in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, made a significant discovery regarding the four main types of betacoronaviruses, including the deadly viruses SARS-CoV-2 and MERS, as well as the OC43 virus that causes colds. The research was carried out using the research infrastructure of the SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre.

One of the most demanding challenges for Na-ion batteries is finding a suitable anode material that will provide high capacity, while at the same time its structure will not degrade during repeated sodiation and desodiation (processes that occur during the operation of cells). A group of researchers from the AGH University of Science and Technology and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, conducting research on the ASTRA line, undertook an attempt to find a suitable material, and their studies were published in the journal "Energy Storage Materials".

A group of researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Lorraine, CNRS in France, conducted studies on the ASTRA line at the SOLARIS Centre. In their publication "Revealing the molecular structure of copper phosphonate groups anchored inside SBA-15 silica channels: Theoretical and experimental study," they described the local geometry of copper cations immobilized by phosphonate groups in the mesoporous silica pores.

A research team from the Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology at Jagiellonian University (MCB UJ), led by dr hab. Przemysław Grudnik, in collaboration with scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin, has uncovered an unusual role of the ERK1/2 kinases in the regulation of a unique post translational modification, hypusination. This breakthrough not only bridges a gap in our understanding of the mechanisms controlling hypusination, an essential process for the human body, but also reveals a surprising function of ERK1/2. These findings have recently been published in the scientific journal "Cell Reports".