Food irradiation has numerous benefits: Eliminates microbial contamination: Destroys bacteria, moulds and yeast that cause food poisoning and spoilage. Lowers food-borne disease risk: Reduces the risk ...

What exactly is irradiated meat, and is it okay for people to eat? Here are the facts about this scientific process and how ...

Irradiation can also complement and enhance traditional recycling methods. When combined with a chemical recycling method known as pyrolysis, resulting in radiolysis, plastic waste polymers can be ...

Prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is a type of radiation therapy used to prevent the spread (metastasis) of lung cancer from the lungs to the brain. It is also used in certain types of ...

A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Stem Cells and Development highlights the potential of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a therapeutic strategy for high-dose ...

This is enough to kill tumour cells but not so high that healthy tissue is damaged. Efforts are made to ensure that irradiation does not cause any long-term effects. This is done by considering: ...

In medical applications that involve using radioactive sources, efforts are made to ensure that irradiation does not cause any long-term effects. This is done by considering: If the half-life ...

A group of researchers from Turkey’s Middle East Technical University (METU) and Gumushane University have developed a new way to calculate the solar irradiation on the rear side of bifacial ...

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer ISE) has found that current UV testing methods overestimate ...