Sentences with phrase «radioactive compounds»

In addition, some studies have shown that seaweed assists the elimination of radioactive compounds and heavy metals from the body.

Next, take a second sample and subject it to high heat to kill off any microorganisms, then add more radioactive compounds to the chamber.

The participants were injected with radioactive compounds that bind to their brain's opioid and dopamine receptors.

«I work with metals (both radioactive and nonradioactive) to develop compounds for diagnosing or treating various diseases and other compounds used in detecting or removing radioactive compounds from the environment,» says Jurisson.

Soon thereafter, Ernest Rutherford and Paul Villard identified three different kinds of radiation, dubbed alpha, beta, and gamma rays, emitted by radioactive compounds.

Fracking wastewater is laden with chemicals used to drill and frack the well and may also contain radioactive compounds and heavy metals released from deep underground.

Her research shows that high - pressure fluids striking the shale could dislodge naturally occurring radioactive compounds such as uranium and strontium, putting groundwater at risk of contamination.

Tim Mousseau, a professor of biology and co-director of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Research Initiatives at the University of South Carolina, has done extensive research in the contaminated area surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear facility, which exploded and released large quantities of radioactive compounds in the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union in 1986.

Recent studies link radioactive compounds to fracking.

These types of pharmacies make radioactive compounds and they need to be made in a way that when they are delivered to the hospital or clinic administering them, that the dose has degraded to a specific amount.

We may consider stopping breastfeeding only if a mother has cancer, or is so seriously ill that it is physically impossible for her to breastfeed; if she is on treatment with radioactive compounds or is receiving anti-cancer drugs.

AAA's medical tech uses trace levels of radioactive compounds to both map out and fight cancer.

They suggested the epoch began in the 1950s, when pollutants, plastic and — most notably — radioactive compounds from atomic explosions began accumulating in remote corners of the planet.

He tagged each artificial gene with a radioactive compound and then added it to a mixture of E. coli containing most of the genes extracted from the jellyfish.

The participants were injected with a radioactive compound which binds to their brain's opioid receptors.

These radioactive compounds act as a tracer and naturally emit subatomic particles called positrons over time, and the gamma rays indirectly produced by this process can be detected by imaging equipment.

Moving to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, Gravekamp teamed up with radiobiologist Ekaterina Dadachova and colleagues to combine modified Listeria with the radioactive compound rhenium - 188, which they attached to an engineered protein called a monoclonal antibody that sticks to the bacterium.

In July William Klunk and Chet Mathis, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, and their collaborators in Uppsala, Sweden, announced that they had developed a radioactive compound that, when injected into the veins of a patient, travels to the brain and sticks to plaques of beta - amyloid protein, the telltale evidence of Alzheimer's disease.

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a radioactive compound for evaluating people with cognitive impairment for Alzheimer's disease.

The report confirms that the 1957 accident was caused by the overheating of a liquid waste container which exploded releasing 20 million curies of radioactive compounds.

During the study, participants were injected with a radioactive compound that was bound to their brain's opioid receptors.

Chemical contaminants such as persistent organic pollutants, toxic metals (e.g., Hg, Cd, Pb, Ni), radioactive compounds, pesticides, herbicides, and pharmaceuticals are also accumulating in deep - sea sediments [252].