Geng Deng relates how terbium, a garden-variety lanthanide, has found its way into our daily lives owing to its green phosphorescence. It may be one of the rarer rare-earth elements in the Earth's ...

If you can get rid of circulating tumor cells and tumor cell clusters that detach from a tumor, spreading the disease in the body, cancer is less likely to return. This is the hope behind a ...

The team found that terbium ions couched in a gel matrix derived from bile salts can emit green fluorescence. Within the same gel matrix, the team added an organic molecule called 2,3-DHN ...

The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden have also developed a new method for analyzing exoplanets, making it ...

At a research facility in Missouri, scientists are developing a new way to fight cancer that could change how some of the toughest tumors are treated. Using a radioactive substance called terbium-161, ...

"The radioactive isotope terbium-161 is attached to an antibody and injected into the bloodstream of the patient," explains Martin Béhé from the Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, part of the ...

Terbium-161 is already being tested as an anti-cancer drug in several clinical trials - the PSI researchers have now for the first time scrutinised it as a potential treatment for lymphoma. "Our ...

Word origin: Terbium was named for the village of Ytterby, Sweden (as was yttrium, erbium and ytterbium). Discovery: Swedish chemist Carl Gustaf Mosander separated the mineral gadolinite into three ...

The radiopharmaceutical consists of a radioactive molecule – in this case terbium-161 linked to a ligand. This ligand recognises proteins on the tumour cell, allowing highly targeted cancer treatment.