Irradiation is an established method of sterilization for pharmaceutical products. Radiation sterilization can be achieved with gamma rays, electron beams, and X-rays. Each of these techniques has its ...

Gamma-ray bursts can vary radically in both their severity and their duration. Some scientists believe our planet could be vaporized if one of these jets of energy were aimed directly at Earth, and ...

The first breakthrough in sterilization technology was the autoclave, which kills microbes with high-pressure steam; it s been used in hospitals for more than a century. Today s medical equipment may ...

Single-use systems for bioprocessing rely on components that must be sterilized. Currently, gamma irradiation is used, but X-rays could be a better choice. Recently, Adam Grzelak, PhD, senior ...

Editor’s Note: This is part two in a four-part series about efforts to stop or slow the spread of Zika virus though the use of modified and engineered mosquitoes. See all four pieces here.

Officials in Brazil are planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them, and stop the spread of the disease. Called an irradiator ...

In the sterile insect technique process, or SIT, male insect pupae are subjected to sterilizing gamma rays. The insects are then raised in massive numbers and released in equally massive hordes to ...

BRASILIA – Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.