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UBC is going to be richer than the dreams of avarice.
How about vibranium?
Rush Limbaugh should look into this treatment.
Great news if it can be scaled up and made available
Cool stuff, but how expensive is this stuff? Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory once had a huge (for it’s time) particle accelerator used for particle physics experiments, but when they could spare some beam time, they did experimental treatments for cancer patients, mostly heavy ion radiotherapy, but lots of really cutting edge stuff for the time. No hospital could have afforded such a machine at the time so the treatment was essentially priceless.
It has a half life of 9 days . Needless to say it is intensely radioactive. It actually decays to Francium which has a half life of 22 minutes!
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actinium-225, shortly followed by oscarinium 66.
The cost of this therapy?..........crickets.
B.C. particle accelerator scores triumph with deal to produce ‘rarest drug on earth’
I had no idea they had particle accelerators before Christ.
Thank you. I’ll be here all week.
Actinium-225 is a radionuclide with a 9.9 day half-life (so it cannot be stored for very long before alpha-decaying away). The trick is to chemically attach Ac-225 to some specific compound that is readily absorbed by a specific type of cancerous tumor.
An alpha particle has a short (cellular dimensions) range so it mainly destroys the nearby cancer cells and not much healthy tissue outside of the tumor.
The advantage of Ac-225 is that its daughter products also decay by alpha emission with very short halflives. Basically for every Ac-225 that can be put into the tumor, there are five alpha particles emitted to destroy the cancer cells.
It’s like using machine guns to get rid of the enemy, rather than just single-shot rifles.