ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
LifeSciences Capabilities
Our over-arching theme is radiation and living matter. Our vision of LifeSciences is a versatile, distributed nuclear technology network of platforms operating in dynamic partnerships.
Our capabilities are grouped for convenience into:
Bio-analytical techniques can be used to monitor occupational and environmental exposure to chemicals by determining concentrations in biofluids, food or environmental samples. They can also be used in forensic toxicology, and in therapeutic drug monitoring. |
Imaging reveals processes and events in living matter by showing the metabolic pathways a molecule travels in cellular structures or in animals, by discovering the cellular events of a disease, or by finding and identifying a missing protein. |
The Radiation Technology group operates 60Co irradiators for small scale irradiation studies to various doses.Our unique capabilities enable us to accurately deliver high doses of radiation with a precision not achievable in industrial-scale irradiators. |
Radio-halogen and -carbon probes Our radio-halogen and –carbon probe research involves the use of 11C, 18F and radioiodine (123I, 124I, 125I and 131I) isotopes for radiolabelling compounds and biological reagents.
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Our fundamental research involves exploration of new 'exotic' radio-metals and developing the next generation of ligands for radio-metal complexation to be used in diagnosis and therapeutic applications. |
Radiotracers for molecular imaging LifeSciences has a range of unique radiotracers which is available to collaborative researchers. |