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Construction began today on the CERN MEDICIS research facility, which will make radioactive isotopes for medical applications
At a National Instruments conference in Texas last week, CERN received three awards for excellence in systems design
Knowledge gained in developing particle detectors for the LHC has been used to create a dedicated PET device for breast scans
This week, for the first time at the CNAO hadrontherapy centre in Italy, a beam of carbon ions was used to treat a cancer patient
At a recent brainstorming meeting at CERN, over 200 scientists discussed the possibility of modifying LEIR to serve the biomedical community
The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer
The medical and physics communities came together at ICTR-PHE 2012 to trade techniques and technologies for the fight against cancer