To produce actinium-227, the isotope used for an FDA-approved cancer treatment, the first step is to bombard targets of the radioisotope radium-226 in ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). The ...

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In the fight against superbugs, research laboratories are looking into the past, not the future. "We cannot develop a drug that will be used again and again without the risk of resistance occurring," ...

Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Michigan Discovering new ways to use existing drugs can come about intentionally or by chance. Sometimes physicians or ...

The process for discovering drugs tends to be based on the same kind of pigeonholing that doctors use to treat disease: Parkinson’s is one disease, Crohn’s is something completely separate. A new ...