The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has granted Dynasil seven of its phase-II small business innovation research (SBIR) projects awards, totaling $6.2 million.

SNM, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology and a coalition of medical and national security organizations have urged Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond, R-Mo., to lift a "hold" on the American Medical Isotope Production Act (H.R. 3276), and permit a vote by the U.S. Senate, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 400-17. Several radiologists and nuclear medicine specialists spoke to their concerns if the U.S. continues to rely on foreign sources for medical isotopes.

Scientists at the Nuclear Science and Technology Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are merging nuclear energy and safety expertise with high-performance computing to address nuclear energy- and security-related challenges.

A PET imaging protocol that visualizes the activity of the brain's reward circuitry has been developed and will help in determining which treatment strategies might be most effective in individuals addicted to drugs, according to a presentation at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's annual meeting, a part of the Experimental Biology 2010 conference on Monday April 26 in Anaheim, Calif.

FDG-PET brain imaging has shown that cocaine abusers may retain some ability to inhibit craving which may be therapeutically beneficial in addiction, according to research published online Nov. 18 in NeuroImage.

The Center for Nanoscale Materials at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., has dedicated a new microscopy building, which will house a  scanning probe microscope that measures spin-polarized electrons on surfaces.

Researchers from sensL and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have jointly developed an open-source PET program, compatible with a variety of detectors, which will be freely available to professionals and organizations within the medical imaging field.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's  Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using titanium dioxide nanoparticles bound to biological material. The nano-bio technology may eventually provide an alternative form of therapy that targets only cancer cells and does not affect normal tissue.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has entered a cooperative agreement with Michigan State University (MSU) to provide financial assistance to design and establish the university's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

Oncologists often have to wait months before they can determine whether a treatment is working—utilizing PET/CT, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown that they can determine after a single cycle of chemotherapy whether cytotoxic drugs are killing the cancer or not.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will send $124 million to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for capital investments and upgrades as part of its $1.6 billion allotment under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

High-energy physicists at CERN in Geneva are making production runs that integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic resources in "science clouds," according to work presented at the 17th annual conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, held in Prague, Czech Republic, this week.

Scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed new radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that monitors the environmental and physical conditions of nuclear material containers in storage and transportation.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a research facility to advance understanding of nuclear isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos.