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 ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is boosting isotope production to secure the US supply chain after Russian shortages.

Nuclear medicine supports some of the most advanced cancer treatments in the world. The radioisotopes that power it, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...