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Radioactive ‘fruit sugar’ lights up cancer and inflammation

Posted by ArielTechGeek 434 days ago (https://newatlas.com)

A radioactive form of fructose, a natural sugar found in fruit, given to mice lit up areas of cancer and inflammation on a diagnostic medical scan. The researchers say the approach makes diseases easier to spot than current techniques and opens the door to new avenues of early detection.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Sugar, Diagnosis, Diagnostic devices, Cancer, University of Ott

Radioactive German pigs affected by unexpected source of contamination

Posted by ArielTechGeek 610 days ago (https://newatlas.com)

Free-roaming boars in the woods of Austria and Germany have levels of radioactivity that makes their meat unsuitable for eating. Once thought to be the result of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, new research points to another, darker, source of contamination.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: Nuclear weapons, Animals, Radioactivity, Vienna University of Technology

Nuclear agency okays radioactive water release from Fukushima

Posted by ArielTechGeek 662 days ago (https://newatlas.com)

More than 12 years after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that cost Japan 20,000 lives, the cleanup continues. The International Atomic Energy Commission (IAEA) has formally approved Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station into the sea.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags: Japan, Fukushima, Radiation, Nuclear