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Nano: avoiding toxic shock

How do you regulate for the unknown? In the field of nanotechnology this has become a crucial question. We can currently buy on the open market a variety of products using silver nanoparticles…but scientists have recently discovered the tox... Read More »


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Is new technology the remedy for costly chronic healthcare?

The costs of healthcare are increasing to unsustainable levels, due to an ageing and growing global population. Could emerging healthcare technologies provide the answers to the world’s mounting healthcare crisis? How acceptable are these te... Read More »

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Nanotechnology: can it break through the regulation?

The existing regulation of nanotechnology is only effective in so far as it hinders the progress of nanotechnology into society, argues Pythagoras Petratos. The existing fragmented regulation leads to significant delays, during which time nanotech... Read More »

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Nanosyringes or Nanotoxins? Carbon Nanotubes and Cell Membranes.

Professor Mark Sansom spoke on 6 November about the cutting-edge work of the new Institute for Nanoscience in Medicine. This Institute has recently joined the James Martin 21st Century School, and it brings together researchers from biochemistry an... Read More »