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iThemba Labs Opens Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility

Published 8/5/2014

iThemba Labs opened the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in July of 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The facility is the first of its kind in Africa and will support biomedical, pharmaceutical, geological, and environmental research, as well as supporting advanced sample dating techniques for paleontology. Created in collaboration with Wits University and the University of Johannesburg, the project was supported by funding from the Department of Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.