What Are the Risks of Nanotech?

March 31, 2014

(The Guardian) – Medical intervention usually involves risk – you only have to look on the leaflet listing potential side-effects inside any pill packet. For all new treatments, the big decision to be made is whether the benefits (cure) outweigh the risks (side-effects, toxicity). We’re relatively well versed in predicting and testing how drugs behave in the body, but nanomedicines come with an added level of complexity.