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Journal Publishes Review of Current Landscape of Nanoparticle Risk and Regulation

Nanotechnology continues to be forecast to reap massive global benefits across multiple sectors. Increasing public awareness of nanotechnologies, linked to non-specifically regulated introduction of products containing n...

8 Sep 2009

Nanotechnology Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Safety of Nanoparticles

Researchers at Swansea University's Centre for NanoHealth have been awarded £1 million by the Research Councils' Nanoscience through Engineering to Application cross-council programme, led by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), to analyse the levels at which nanoparticles can be deemed safe within cells.

2 Sep 2009

Testing Air for Potentially Dangerous Microorganisms

Microorganisms are active everywhere, even in places where food is produced or processed - but not all are desirable. Researchers can now test the air directly in production halls or warehouses for potentially dangerous microorganisms.

1 Sep 2009

More Reliable Risk Assessment Providing Clues to How Certain Chemicals Affect Human Health

Most people would agree that arsenic, lead, mercury, benzene and carbon monoxide pose dangers to humans. Not many, though, realize that the average person is exposed to about 10,000 different chemicals per day.

24 Aug 2009

Microbes Converting Mercury Nanoparticles into Form Dangerous to Most Living Creatures

Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most living creatures.

18 Aug 2009

How Carbon Nanoparticles Would Affect Fruit Flies

Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not fully understood. In a series of experiments, researchers at Brown University sought to determine how carbon nanoparticles would affect fruit flies - from the very young to adults.

7 Aug 2009

Nanotechnology Innovations in Health and Safety Applications

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ("CNSE") of the University at Albany announced today that it has selected an accomplished physician to head a next-generation NanoHealth initiative that will focus on education, research, and deployment of nanotechnology enabled improvements in occupational, public, and environmental health and safety.

From College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany 6 Aug 2009

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

A new study raises the possibility that flies and other insects that encounter nanomaterial "hot spots," or spills, near manufacturing facilities in the future could pick up and transport nanoparticles on their bodies, transferring the particles to other flies or habitats in the environment.

5 Aug 2009

New Effort to Monitor Effects of Nanomaterials on the Environment

Edmonton-University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment.

8 Jul 2009

New Review Article Focuses on the Use of Nanomaterials for Environmental Cleanup

A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.

8 Jul 2009

Nanotoxicology News

Journal Publishes Review of Current Landscape of Nanoparticle Risk and Regulation

Nanotechnology Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Safety of Nanoparticles

Testing Air for Potentially Dangerous Microorganisms

More Reliable Risk Assessment Providing Clues to How Certain Chemicals Affect Human Health

Microbes Converting Mercury Nanoparticles into Form Dangerous to Most Living Creatures

How Carbon Nanoparticles Would Affect Fruit Flies

Nanotechnology Innovations in Health and Safety Applications

The Potential Adverse Health and Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles

New Effort to Monitor Effects of Nanomaterials on the Environment

New Review Article Focuses on the Use of Nanomaterials for Environmental Cleanup

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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