All radioisotopes articles
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Business
Big deals confirm renewed interest in radiopharmaceuticals
Acquisitions of RayzeBio and Point Biopharma highlight the potential of targeting radioactivity directly to tumour cells
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Research
Scientists may have detected exotic nitrogen-9 isotope
Nuclei would be the first to decay by the emission of five protons
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News
Plan for medical isotope production centre floated by Welsh government
Nuclear facility would supply the whole country and further afield
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Opinion
Fully automated synthesis of fluorine-18 PET tracers
Making radioisotopes suitable for positron emission tomography
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Research
Molecular experiments hope to reveal new physics
Detecting extremely short-lived radium fluoride can explore standard model’s limits
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Research
Robot speeds up production of plutonium spacecraft fuel
Radioisotope synthesis quadrupled by robot in bid to reach Nasa target
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Business
Transforming PET imaging with silicon
Fuzionaire Diagnostics can add Si–18F radiolabels to a variety of molecules quickly, easily and cheaply
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News
Investigation blames Russian facility for last year’s ruthenium isotope leak
Russian government denies that the release is the result of an accident during refinement of fission products
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News
FDA approves new way to make medical imaging isotope
System will be the US’s first domestic source of molybdenum-99 for 30 years
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News
Russia denies involvement in leak of radioisotope detected over Europe
Ruthenium-106 is thought to have escaped from a nuclear reprocessing facility, possibly in Russia
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Research
Lightning strikes cause nuclear reactions in the atmosphere
Thunderstorms are a previously unrecognised natural source of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen isotopes
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Research
Chernobyl disaster mystery solved
A nuclear explosion – not high pressure steam – started the chain reaction of events that destroyed the reactor
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Business
Novartis to buy AAA for radioligand cancer drugs
$3.9bn deal follows European approval of Advanced Accelerator Applications’ first-in-class radionuclide drug Lutathera
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News
Serious shortage of medical isotopes predicted by year’s end
US National Academies warns that ‘severe’ shortages of molybdenum-99 and technetium-99m are likely
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Research
Honeycomb spheres trap harmful iodine gas
Specially designed polymers could help clean up radioactive iodine
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Research
Photoacoustic nanoparticles highlight uranium in the body
A study that will likely gather the interest from defence agencies around the world
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