This outstanding book covers the most recent advances in the production of stable and radioactive isotopes as well as in the synthesis, analysis and applications of isotopically labelled compounds. Written by internationally renowned contributors, it provides authoritative and wide-ranging coverage of significant growth areas including: * new methodologies in the production of isotopes * novel approaches to compounds labelled with isotopes of hydrogen, carbon and other stable, long-lived and short-lived radioactive isotopes * advances in the analysis of istopically labelled compounds * recent and future applications of isotopes in pharmaceutical research and development, in pharmacological and clinical sutdies and nuclear medicine, as well as in agricultural, nutritional and environmental research * recent applications of isotopes in investigating organic and bioorganic mechanisms and pathways * safety and regulations of handling isotopes This will be an invaluable information and reference source to anyone involved in the production of isotopes, the synthesis and analysis of compounds labelled with stable, long-lived or short-lived radioactive isotopes, in drug research and development, in clinical investigations and nuclear medicine, in agricultural research and development and environmental investigations, in the elucidation of biological and chemical pathways, handling radioisotopes, laboratory design and other areas.