{"id":225913,"date":"2025-11-26T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/particle-accelerator-waste-could-help-produce-cancer-fighting-materials"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:29:27","slug":"particle-accelerator-waste-could-help-produce-cancer-fighting-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/particle-accelerator-waste-could-help-produce-cancer-fighting-materials","title":{"rendered":"Particle accelerator waste could help produce cancer-fighting materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/particle-accelerator-waste-could-help-produce-cancer-fighting-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical isotopes, scientists have found.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of York have shown that intense radiation captured in particle accelerator \u201cbeam dumps\u201d could be repurposed to produce materials used in cancer therapy. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/954z-cn34\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review C.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have now found a way to make those leftover photons do a second job, without affecting the main physics experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy that would normally go to waste inside powerful particle accelerators could be used to create valuable medical isotopes, scientists have found. Researchers at the University of York have shown that intense radiation captured in particle accelerator \u201cbeam dumps\u201d could be repurposed to produce materials used in cancer therapy. The study is published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}