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Balancing Opportunities and Risks Associated with Nanotechnology

The challenge with all emerging liabilities is to identify risk potentialities at an early stage, and well before they become the subject of court action.

27 Mar 2009

Nanoparticles Added to Cosmetics and Sunscreens May be Harmful to the Environment

Using aquatic microbes as their "canary-in-a-cage," scientists from Ohio today reported that nanoparticles now being added to cosmetics, sunscreens, and hundreds of other personal care products may be harmful to the environment.

26 Mar 2009

SOCMA's Nanotechnology SME Coalition Expanding Membership Categories

In response to the growth and development of nanotechnology companies that produce and use nanoscale materials, SOCMA's Nanotechnology SME Coalition has expanded its membership categories to address their specific ne...

26 Mar 2009

First Luminescent Nanoparticle Designed to Minimize Toxic Side Effects

Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nanoscale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that gl...

26 Mar 2009

Research Team Develop Nanoparticle that Transports Antitumor Genes Selectively to Cancer Cells

Given that cancer is ultimately a genetic disease, it has long been the hope of researchers to use gene therapy to attack tumors where they might be most susceptible. Those prospects have taken a significant step forward...

26 Mar 2009

Symyx Technologies Announces the Release of DiscoveryGate Web Service

By providing programmable access to the DiscoveryGate content platform, this new service accelerates scientific workflows, decision making, and productivity in R+D by giving scientists 24/7 access to current chemical sourcing, molecular property, synthetic methodology, bioactivity, and toxicology information from Symyx and participating content providers.

26 Mar 2009

Researchers Have Produced a Strongly Hydrophobic Nanodiamond Material

Vadym Mochalin, Senior Researcher, and Yury Gogotsi, Trustee Chair Professor of Materials Science + Engineering at Drexel University, have produced a strongly hydrophobic nanodiamond material that shows bright blue fluorescence, just as macroscopic diamonds do.

25 Mar 2009

Using Nanotechnology, Brookhaven Lab Scientists Patent Corrosion-Resistant Coating for Metals

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles - particles measuring billionths of a meter - which renders the metal resistant to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 25 Mar 2009

Report Addresses Regulatory Oversight for The Next Biotech Revolution

The safety of early applications of synthetic biology may be adequately addressed by the existing regulatory framework for biotechnology, especially in contained laboratories and manufacturing facilities. But further adv...

25 Mar 2009

Conference Discusses Carbon Nanocarbons from Biological to Biomedical and Environmental Effects

Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), discovered in 1991, have amazing mechanical, thermal and electrical conductivity, as well as excellent field emission properties. Actual uses of CNT are already about to be numerous (car industry, sport accessories, etc.), and future applications are foreseen to be in constant development.

24 Mar 2009