Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly because it lives up to its name, which is the Greek word for "unstable." ...

CHESTER SPRINGS, Pa., July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Curadh MTR Inc. ("Curadh") and Alpha Fusion, Inc. ("Alpha Fusion") will present on the clinical development of radiopharmaceutical products at the ...

A team of researchers using the ISOLDE nuclear-physics facility at CERN has measured for the first time the so-called electron affinity of the chemical element astatine, the rarest naturally occurring ...

In a recent study, Texas A&M University researchers have described a new process to purify astatine-211, a promising radioactive isotope for targeted cancer treatment. Unlike other elaborate ...

Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) is one of the most powerful cancer treatments. It takes advantage of alpha particles’ ability to cause large amounts of damage near a tumor cell while keeping the ...

This week, we meet the element astatine, whose very name tells us almost half of all that we know about it. Astatine's chemical symbol is At and its chemical number is 85. Its name comes from the ...

Studying the infinitesimally rare element astatine can feel like chasing shadows. All of its isotopes are radioactive, the most stable having a half-life of 8 hours, and the estimated stock of ...

NEW ORLEANS, May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The first-ever U.S.-based meeting of the World Astatine Community will take place June 19-20, 2025 at the Sheraton in downtown New Orleans. The event will ...

A research team from the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University has started an investigator-initiated clinical trial of sodium astatine ([211 At]NaAt) injection for refractory differentiated ...

A new targeted alpha therapy is showing promise for patients whose thyroid cancer no longer responds to radioactive iodine, the standard beta-emitting treatment. In a first-in-human study, ...