June 24, 2009
By manipulating matter at less than a billionth of a meter, MIT scientists are using nanotechnology to create next-generation biomedical therapies that hold enormous promise and peril for Minnesota’s medical device industry. (PhysOrg)
June 23, 2009
Intelligence is a big deal. Humanity owes its dominant position on Earth not to any special strength of our muscles, nor any unusual sharpness of our teeth, but to the unique ingenuity of our brains. It is our brains that … Read More
June 18, 2009
Ethical Issues In Synthetic Biology: New Report Calls for a Broad Ethics of Emerging Technologies Washington, DC In Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates, the authors examine how the ethical issues raised by a variety of … Read More
June 12, 2009
Nanotechnology (materials that are approximately one billionth of a meter thick) is a booming business. Some estimates state its annual market will be over one trillion dollars by 2015. But while the technology is rapidly expanding, concern over its safety … Read More
June 10, 2009
Dr. Annette McCarthy, of the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said this past weekend, while speaking at the IFT International Food Nanoscience Conference in Anaheim, California, that the FDA already has … Read More
May 19, 2009
So-called “nanotechnology” may improve the effectiveness of antibiotics by allowing the medicine to be put into an aerosol form, new research suggests. A spray of antibiotics encapsulated in microscopic antimicrobial silver carbene complexes (SCCs) proved highly successful at just half … Read More
May 11, 2009
Dr. Susan Schneider, IEET fellow and assistant professor of philosophy and an affiliated faculty member with Penns Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, speaks at a UPenn Media Seminar on Neuroscience and Society on … Read More
May 7, 2009
Nanotechnology holds huge potential for supplying clean water to the world’s poor, but many challenges must be overcome to realise it. (SciDev)
April 20, 2009
TRADE unions normally mount a picket over job losses or workers rights, but this week members of the ACTU hit the airwaves about a tiny matter: nanotechnology. (The Australian)
April 20, 2009
University of Leicester team examine potential of new technology to pave way for development of a combined diagnosis/therapeutic strategy. (FirstScience)
April 17, 2009
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester could be potentially paving the way for the development of a powerful new strategy for both the early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. (PhysOrg)
April 8, 2009
NanoEthics (Volume 3, Number 1, April 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanotechnology, Contingency and Finitude” by Christopher Groves, 1-16. “Researching and Teaching the Ethics and Social Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Laboratory” by Joan McGregor and Jameson M. Wetmore, 17-30. … Read More
April 2, 2009
Transforming the World From the Bottom Up, Nanotechnology Could Change the Fields of Medicine and Energy. (ABC News)
March 31, 2009
Nanotoxicology (Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanomaterials: A challenge for toxicologists” by Alok Dhawan, Vyom Sharma, and Devendra Parmar, 1-8. “Emerging trends of nanoparticles application in food technology: Safety paradigms” by Mukul Das, Neha Saxena, … Read More
March 24, 2009
Scientists in UB’s Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and UB’s Department of Medicine have developed a stable nanoparticle that delivers short RNA molecules in the brain to “silence” or turn off a gene that plays a critical role in … Read More
March 19, 2009
(With Jeanann Boyce) Legal institutions must try to avoid getting blinded by the hype and inappropriately sweeping in—and perhaps over-regulating—of both the novel and the mundane applications of this still relatively young technology. As nanotechnology progresses, and both humans and … Read More
March 13, 2009
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment released guidelines on March 10, 2009, with the intent of reducing the risk of environmental harm from nanomaterials. Japan currently does not have any laws or regulations governing nanomaterials and the new guidelines will … Read More
March 11, 2009
Nanotechnology has been used for the first time to destroy cancer cells with a highly targeted package of “tumour busting” genes. (BBC)
March 11, 2009
With nanotechnology certain to make its way into food manufacturing and food products, transparency and accountability is essential to avoid the kinds of food crises we have seen of late in other parts of the food industry such as the … Read More
February 16, 2009
Biomedical Microdevices (Volume 11, Number 1, February 2009) is now available by subscription only. Articles Include: “Nanotechnology for breast cancer therapy” by Takemi Tanaka, Paolo Decuzzi, Massimo Cristofanilli, Jason H. Sakamoto, Ennio Tasciotti, Fredika M. Robertson and Mauro Ferrari, 49-63. “Towards an implantable biochip for glucose and lactate … Read More
January 30, 2009
Recent action in Congress to reauthorize the U.S. federal nanotechnology research program offers the chance to address the social and ethical issues concerning the emerging scientific field, experts say. (News-Medical)
January 29, 2009
The Canadian government reportedly is planning to release in February the world’s first national regulation requiring companies to detail their use of engineered nanomaterials, according to environmental officials. The information gathered under the requirement will be used to evaluate the … Read More
January 19, 2009
Before going to the gym for a workout or after indulging in cake at the office party, people with diabetes can use a portable monitor to take a quick blood glucose measurement and adjust their food or insulin intake to … Read More
December 15, 2008
Several years ago, when nanotechnology—the art and science of engineering ridiculously tiny stuff—was just starting to worm its way into public consciousness, I attended a meeting of scientists and government regulators at the National Science Foundation. The scientists were all … Read More
December 11, 2008
The government needs a more comprehensive plan for studying the risks of nanotechnology, the National Research Council said Wednesday. (Associated Press)
