Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. is a company of national interest managing an international and multidisciplinary research center of excellence. Elettra’s hallmark is the study of materials done using the light generated by two sources, Elettra and FERMI. The high brilliance and wide energy range of the light produced by Elettra and the extremely brilliant and ultrashort pulses produced by FERMI (in the order of one millionth of a billionth of a second) allow to unveil the most hidden secrets of matter.

Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is the Italian Representing Entity of CERIC-ERIC and supports the Research Infrastructure mission with a selection of beamlines at the synchrotron light source Elettra.

In the biomedical field, both Elettra and FERMI develop cutting-edge technologies to study tissues, organs and small animals using micro and nanometric resolution. In the structural biology field, it is possible to perform analyses including studies on DNA replication, genome stability, cell signalling and protein characterization. Moreover, small molecules can be investigated for their therapeutic effect and their interactions with target enzymes or proteins on an atomic scale.

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