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Panel blasts federal nanotech risk research strategy

harminka — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:14:17 -0600

A National Research Council (NRC) committee today issued a highly critical report describing serious shortfalls in the Bush administration’s strategy to better understand the environment, health and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology and to effectively manage those potential risks.

New nanotech products hitting the market

harminka — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:47:04 -0500

New nanotechnology consumer products are coming on the market at the rate of 3-4 per week, a finding based on the latest update to the nanotechnology consumer product inventory maintained by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN).

Limited transparency in federal nanotech research may hamper development

harminka — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:08:30 -0500

Without clear leadership and more transparency in federal risk research investment, the emergence of safe nanotechnologies will be a happy accident, rather than a foregone conclusion, says Dr. Andrew Maynard, the Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). This sentiment was voiced today by Dr. Maynard in testimony at the House Science & Technology Committee’s hearing on the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008.

Nanotechnology's future depends on who the public trusts

harminka — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:20:40 -0600

When the public considers competing arguments about a new technology’s potential risks and benefits, people will tend to agree with the expert whose values are closest to their own, no matter what position the expert takes. The same will hold true for nanotechnology, a key study has found.

Americans look to government to ensure safety of new technology

harminka — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:58:22 -0500

National survey findings released today indicate that Americans’ awareness of nanotechnology remains low. Popular awareness is nearly as small as the tiny nanoscale materials and nano-enabled devices and products now flowing onto the market from this rapidly progressing technology that experts believe will usher in a new industrial revolution.

IBM Unveils Two Major Nanotechnology Breakthroughs

harminka — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:10:24 -0500

IBM announced two major scientific achievements in the field of nanotechnology that could one day lead to new kinds of devices and structures built from a few atoms or molecules.

Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward

harminka — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:03:46 -0500

Today’s report from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Nanotechnology Task Force is an important and positive step forward in the agency’s effort to tackle the new scientific and regulatory challenges posed by nanotechnology.

Researchers create new nanotechnology field

harminka — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:46:52 -0500

A University of Alberta research team has combined two fields of study in nanotechnology to create a third field that the researchers believe will lead to revolutionary advances in computer electronics, among many other areas.