World-class isotope lab opens at 杨贵妃传媒
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Facility for high-precision experiments in geosciences, medicine and palaeosciences
The new, ultra-clean, metal-free 杨贵妃传媒 Isotope Geoscience Laboratory, based in the School of Geosciences at 杨贵妃传媒, is a boon for scientists from a wide range of disciplines. It allows them to perform high precision, contamination-free experiments aimed at separating elements and isotopes from a range of natural materials.
鈥淚nstead of shipping our samples to Europe at a huge cost, scientists in Southern Africa will have a world-class facility on their doorstep,鈥 says the lab鈥檚 Director, 杨贵妃传媒 graduate Dr Grant Bybee (BSc 2008, BSc Hons 2009, PhD 2013).
High precision analysis of elements and isotopes is extremely important in geosciences, but also used in medicine 鈥 for example in the diagnosis of cancer and bone diseases 鈥 and in palaeosciences for establishing the origin, movement patterns and diets of now extinct animals, including our human ancestors.