Wisconsin is building a bigger particle accelerator — to make more of the molecules that find disease

Some of the most useful tools in modern medicine are radioactive molecules that seek out diseased cells, lighting them up on a scan or treating them from inside. They can only be made in a cyclotron — a particle accelerator — and only a handful of sites worldwide produce them. The University of Wisconsin-Madison broke ground on October 23 on an expansion built around a new, larger cyclotron, expected to multiply production of these research materials by two to eight times, supporting work on imaging and treatments for cancer and Alzheimer's disease. 'The expanded facility will give researchers and physicians access to equipment and specialised materials needed to develop and test ideas,' said medical school dean Nita Ahuja.

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