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Greater Transparency and Public Engagement About Opportunities and Risks Presented by Nanotechnology is Required

Greater transparency and public engagement about the potential opportunities and risks presented by nanotechnology is required, according to a new report by The Australia Institute.

25 Nov 2009

NIEHS Increasing Investment in Understanding Potential Health, Safety and Environmental Issues Related to Nanomaterials

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to t...

19 Nov 2009

Nanotechnology KTN Announces the Publication of UK Health, Safety and Environment Directory

It is well known and understood that the commercialisation of nanotechnologies requires a safe and responsible development approach to be in place. As signposted by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering repo...

12 Nov 2009

Paper Provides Summary of Potential Opportunities and Risks of Nanotechnology

In October, the German Federal Agency for the Environment (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) stated its position on the handling of nanomaterials as well as nanoproducts potentially fraught with risk and published a study entitled &...

4 Nov 2009

Book Provides Exhaustive Account of Carbon Nanotubes Toxicity and Biocompatibility Towards Human and Animal Organisms

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "carbon nanotubes handbook" report to their offering. . The field of C-nanoparti...

From Research and Markets 29 Oct 2009

PEN Senior Advisor Calls for Radical Change in How Government Oversees Nanotechnology

A new article by PEN senior advisor J. Clarence (Terry) Davies calls for radical change in how the federal government oversees nanotechnology and other technologies to best protect human health and the environment.

13 Oct 2009

Nanotechnologies Roundtable with Dr. Andrew Maynard

Dr. Maynard, Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, discusses his experience and work, nanotechnology basics, regulatory issues, and potential and environm...

13 Oct 2009

Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

CIC biomaGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, is to lead the European project HINAMOX, an acronym that stands for Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Response, Bioimaging and Distribution at Cellular and Body Level.

5 Oct 2009

Major Adjustments to EPA's Recently Published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy'

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made major adjustments to its recently published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy' that should greatly reduce the use of animals in assessing nanomaterials while impr...

5 Oct 2009

EU Must Do More to Develop and Deploy Key Enabling Technologies such as Nanotechnology

The EU must do more to develop and deploy key enabling technologies (KETs) such as nanotechnology, micro- and nano-electronics, advanced materials and photonics. This is the main message from a new Commission communicati...

1 Oct 2009

Nanoregulations News

Greater Transparency and Public Engagement About Opportunities and Risks Presented by Nanotechnology is Required

NIEHS Increasing Investment in Understanding Potential Health, Safety and Environmental Issues Related to Nanomaterials

Nanotechnology KTN Announces the Publication of UK Health, Safety and Environment Directory

Paper Provides Summary of Potential Opportunities and Risks of Nanotechnology

Book Provides Exhaustive Account of Carbon Nanotubes Toxicity and Biocompatibility Towards Human and Animal Organisms

PEN Senior Advisor Calls for Radical Change in How Government Oversees Nanotechnology

Nanotechnologies Roundtable with Dr. Andrew Maynard

Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Major Adjustments to EPA's Recently Published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy'

EU Must Do More to Develop and Deploy Key Enabling Technologies such as Nanotechnology

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

Light-Responsive Azobenzene Polymers for Enhanced Neural Interfaces

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

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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