Environment, biomedicine, food, cultural heritage ... Users coming from universities and research centres explain how they have taken advantage of the synchrotron light and how can benefit for their research.

The second of these videos includes an experiment in the field of food, led by the Group of Separation Techniques in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (GTS-UAB). Using synchrotron light, the researchers were able to identify the chemical species and distribution of selenium in the wheat plant and grain that had been previously enriched by the researchers. In this way, they could see if that preparation is correct and ensures an adequate intake of selenium, an element that is scarce in some soils of Europe.

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Videos are filmed in Spanish and Catalan, although subtitles are available in English, Catalan and Spanish.

These videos are part of the project FCT-15-9828 "Bringing science to society – Outreach science program of the ALBA Synchrotron", funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) - Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the Foundation Obra Social "la Caixa".