AT the beginning of this century, one of the facts most intriguing to chemists was the impossibility of concentrating some of the radioactive elements. Radium D, for example, a substance well ...

IF a chemist is asked to report on the use of the new tracer technique in biology, it is obvious that he is expected not to discuss the scientific problems, but the laboratory technique.

Trials have been taking place to see if radioactive medicine can be delivered to hospitals by drone. Coventry-based drone ...

The Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre at The University of Manchester has been awarded a license to produce its own radioactive tracers, enabling it to proceed with unique research into cancer, ...

The MHRA has approved trofolastat to identify how far high-risk prostate cancer has spread before treatment, to detect ...

"We need to give patients a certain amount of a tracer [a small dose of a radioactive chemical] to enable us to get good, clear images from scans so that we can accurately diagnose their ...

Nuclear medicine is a distinct area of radiology that uses small amounts of radioactive substances to assess organ function and detect disease ...