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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After three years of meticulous and dedicated hard work, the Rhisotope Project at Wits University has successfully inserted low doses of radioisotopes into 20 live rhinoceros. In this final phase 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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Eden Radioisotopes, LLC filed a Construction Permit Application today with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for an isotope production complex near ...

For 80 years Oak Ridge National Laboratory has produced isotopes that treat cancer and power deep space exploration.

Scandium radioisotopes are potentially useful for medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans. However, health care providers do not currently use these isotopes to image cancer ...

Cutting across demographic and geographic lines, cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the United States. According to the National Cancer Institute, more than one in three men and women ...

Rockville, Jan. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per a new industry analysis by Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider, the global nuclear medicine radioisotopes market is ...

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 ...

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 ...