Radioactive isotopes (or radioisotopes) have been employed for cancer treatment for years, with radioactive iodine being used to treat tumours of the thyroid gland since the 1950s. However, the vast ...
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is vital to a robust domestic isotope R&D and production ecosystem ...
The CERN-MEDICIS facility in Geneva, Switzerland has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. This is the first step in the MEDICIS facility’s plans to make a large number of ...
Using its electron linear accelerator, researchers have enabled two companies to demonstrate new methods for the production of molybdenum-99, the parent isotope of technetium-99m – a medical isotope ...
NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC formerly of Madison, Wisconsin now headquartered in Beloit, is the recipient of a $15 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
Along with the development of 18F- and 68Ga-labeled PET agents, radioisotopes have enabled precise diagnostic imaging across diverse clinical applications. Similarly, radiotherapy, a long-established ...
Imagine an aircraft manufacturer that finds it is unable to inspect the welds or key castings on the wings of a commercial jetliner because it can’t obtain the tools — industrial radiation materials — ...
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Aug. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nusano, a physics company transforming the production of radioisotopes, today cut the ribbon on its 190,000-square-foot radioisotope ...
There are few people in this world who make their living producing radioactive substances. These isotope producers constitute a small exclusive group of experts in this very specialized area. One ...
BIOEMTECH, a developer of high-resolution PET and SPECT imaging systems for preclinical and translational research, today ...
The chart of the known nuclides has been extended significantly by physicists in Japan, who have discovered 45 new neutron-rich isotopes. The nuclei were spotted at the RIKEN laboratory by smashing a ...