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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.