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Nowadays, a wide variety of nanoparticles (NPs) are applied in different fields such as medical science and industry. Due to their large commercial volume, the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (NMs) has proposed to study a set of 14 nanomaterials, one of which being cerium oxide (CeO(2)). In particular, CeO(2) based NPs are widely used in automotive industry, healthcare, and cosmetics. In this paper, we propose a method for the production of radioactive CeO(2) NPs.We demonstrate that they maintain the same physicochemical characteristics as the “cold” ones in terms of size distribution and Zeta potential; we develop a new protocol to assess their cellular interaction in immortalized mouse fibroblast cell line Balb/3T3, a model for the study of basal cytotoxicity and carcinogenic potential induced by chemicals and in the present case by NPs. Experimental result of this work, which shows a quasi-linear concentration-uptake response of cells, can be useful as a reference dose-uptake curve for explaining effects following biological uptake after exposure to CeO(2) NPs.
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Appl Biosaf
August 2025
Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig, Germany.
Background: Serum and other blood-derived products are widely used in biomedical and biopharmaceutical processes, especially for the production of vaccines or cell therapeutic applications. To ensure quality and safety, each serum lot undergoes testing for sterility to minimize the risk of disease transmission. A currently performed standard procedure is gamma-irradiation of serum for effectively killing pathogens.
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August 2025
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address:
Geopolymers are aluminosilicate materials that exhibit effective immobilization properties for low-level radioactive nuclear waste, and more specifically for the immobilization of radioactive cesium. The identification of the cesium-binding sites and their distribution between the different phases making up the geopolymeric matrix can be obtained using solid-state NMR measurements of the quadrupolar spin Cs, which is a surrogate for the radioactive cesium species present in nuclear waste streams. For quadrupolar nuclei, acquiring two-dimensional multiple-quantum experiments allows the acquisition of more dispersed spectra when multiple sites overlap.
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September 2025
Medical Physics Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a key measure of renal function, typically estimated using creatinine-based equations. More precise clearance measurements are obtained with radiotracers, such as [Tc]Tc-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), and blood samples over several hours. However, standard plasma clearance methods require labor-intensive plasma preparation, limiting efficiency in clinical practice.
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September 2025
Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), 333 Techno Jungang-daero, Dalseong-gun, Daegu 42988, Korea.
Cesium ions (Cs) are notable radioactive contaminants hazardous to humans and the environment. Among various remediation methods, adsorption is a practical way to remove Cs from water, and Prussian blue (PB) is well-known as an efficient Cs adsorbent. Although various PB derivatives have been proposed to treat Cs-contaminated water, soil remediation is still challenging due to the limited mobility of pollutants in soil.
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September 2025
Analytical Chemistry and Control Department, Hot Laboratories and Waste Management Center (HLWMC), Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA), 13759, Cairo, Egypt.
The huge volume waste of the produced water (PW) associated with petroleum extraction poses significant hazards to the surrounded environment due to its complex composition and the presence of various hazardous pollutants, including organic, inorganic, biological contaminants, and natural occurring radioactive materials (NORM). This study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting the removal of the long-lived radium isotopes, i.e.
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