A professor at Princeton University, Succeeded in using Radioactive materials that helped Multi-month process to be turned into a one-day step, speeding the arrival of new drugs to the marketplace
Date: November 9, 2017
Source: Princeton University
Summary: A progressive new method to make radioactive atoms can possibly convey new drugs to patients substantially speedier than before - utilizing light. While the past approach took months, the new photocatalytic process replaces hydrogen with tritium in not more than hours
As the above figure shows, LED light acts as a catalyst to remove Hydrogen from water molecule and replacing it with Deutrium/Tritium, the isotopes of Hydrogen with more Neutrons and protons... (Are Radioactive as well)
Let me add the said Dialogues by the professors and collaborators...
MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry says, "Your average drug takes 12 to 14 years to come to market, So everything that we can do to take that 14- or 12-year time frame and compress it is going to advantage society, because it gets medicines to people -- to society -- so much faster."
"Is it going to the right place? The wrong place? The right place and the wrong place?" MacMillan asked while pointing to the issue that Every potential new medication has to go through testing to confirm that it affects the part of the body it is intended to affect.
Following the way of a compound that breaks up into the circulation system displayed a genuine test, yet one that radiochemists settled years back by swapping out individual particles with radioactive substitutes. Once that is done, "the properties of the molecule -- of the drug -- are exactly the same except that they're radioactive, and that means that you can trace them really, really well," MacMillan said.
So Folks...!! This research is too much revolutionary in the field of Science especially medicine, to create new useful drugs and making these available much faster for the patients to use... :)
This is actually a great achievement, and Congrats for that...
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