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Blood Test Protecting Consumers from New Products Containing Potentially Harmful Nanotubes

Researchers in West Virginia and Japan are reporting an advance toward a blood test that could help protect consumers from new products containing potentially harmful kinds of nanotubes. These ultra small wisps of carbon...

4 Feb 2009

UK's Premier Resource on Nanotechnology Hazard and Risk Appoints New Director of Operations

SAFENANO, the UK's premier resource on nanotechnology hazard and risk, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Steve Hankin as its new Director of Operations.

4 Feb 2009

Practices Guide to Synthetic Nanoparticle Risk Management

The very first guide in Québec to deal with managing the risks associated with synthetic nanoparticles has just been published. It is a best practices guide published jointly by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), the Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail (CSST) and NanoQuébec. The guide sets out a prevention strategy appropriate to the workers and researchers who use, manufacture or synthesize nanoparticles.

4 Feb 2009

Risk-Management Policies Needed Now in Nanotechnology

Companies that manufacture products containing nanomaterials must immediately institute high-quality risk management and product stewardship measures to limit potential liability exposure in the future, assert attorneys ...

3 Feb 2009

New Tool Predicts How Chemotherapy Drug Will Work on Individual Tumors

For many cancer patients, chemotherapy can be worse than cancer itself. A patient may respond to one drug but not another, or the tumor may mutate and stop responding to the drug, resulting in months of wasted time, inef...

2 Feb 2009

Researchers Working to Discover the Health Risks of Quantum Dots

A team of Rice researchers has been working to discover the health risks of quantum dots, molecule-sized semiconducting nanocrystals that are generally composed of heavy metals surrounded by an organic shell. Pedro A...

2 Feb 2009

Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Strains of Bacteria

Scientists at NanoBio Corp. and the University of Michigan have demonstrated in the laboratory that their novel topical nanoemulsion kills the highly resistant strains of bacteria that cause chronic illness and death amo...

29 Jan 2009

Product of Revolution in Nanotechnology May be Toxic to Cells Under Certain Conditions

Researchers in Texas are reporting that quantum dots (QDs) - a product of the revolution in nanotechnology increasingly used in electronics, solar cells, and medical imaging devices - may be toxic to cells under acidic o...

28 Jan 2009

UCSC Awarded Prestigious Keck Foundation Grant to Establish W. M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has received a $1.5 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to establish the W. M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. A joint endeavor of the Jack Baskin School of Engi...

27 Jan 2009

Canadian Officials Plan to Require Quantity, Usage and Toxicity Data of Engineered Nanomaterials from Companies

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.

27 Jan 2009

Nanotoxicology News

Blood Test Protecting Consumers from New Products Containing Potentially Harmful Nanotubes

UK's Premier Resource on Nanotechnology Hazard and Risk Appoints New Director of Operations

Practices Guide to Synthetic Nanoparticle Risk Management

Risk-Management Policies Needed Now in Nanotechnology

New Tool Predicts How Chemotherapy Drug Will Work on Individual Tumors

Researchers Working to Discover the Health Risks of Quantum Dots

Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Strains of Bacteria

Product of Revolution in Nanotechnology May be Toxic to Cells Under Certain Conditions

UCSC Awarded Prestigious Keck Foundation Grant to Establish W. M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

Canadian Officials Plan to Require Quantity, Usage and Toxicity Data of Engineered Nanomaterials from Companies

Biochar-Modified Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites for Enhanced Water Treatment

New Nanocage Material Removes Up to 90% of Toxic PFAS from Water

Enhancing Chitosan Films with Silanized Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Sustainable Applications

Study Shows Potential for New Treatments for Neurological and Inflammatory Diseases

Gold Nanoparticles to Restore Vision in Retinal Disorders

Overcoming Nanogold Production Challenges

Electrospinning and the Future of Nanotechnology

How Electrospinning is Shaping the Future of Nanotechnology

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