A Little Bit of Radiation Won't Kill You

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A Little Bit of Radiation Won't Kill You

Dec 10, 2007

Microdosing drugs with radioactive labels might be a way to see if new drugs are effective, reports the Economist. For this technique, drug developers borrow from anthropologists' use of accelerated mass spectrometers.

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