X-ray microprobes provide unique capabilities for determining chemical speciation by using microbeam applications of X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction.

This month's science highlight focuses on beamline X26A at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Science Highlights-NSLS-Beamline X26A

To the left- Fluorescence microtomography of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds from a wild type strain (COL-0) and a mutant strain in which the vacuolar iron uptake transporter VIT1 is disrupted (Kim et al. 2006).