by Andrew Maynard | Jul 20, 2014 | Public Health, Risk
Pathogen safety in federal labs Over the past few weeks, revelations of potentially dangerous errors in US federal labs handling pathogens have placed health and safety high on the national agenda. In June, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 12, 2014 | Nanotechnology, Risk
Nanoparticles in food products Over the past couple of years a number of articles have been posted claiming that we’re eating more food products containing nanoparticles than we know (remember this piece from a couple of weeks ago?). One of the latest...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 11, 2014 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Risk
Nanojuice: drinkable nanoparticles for studying the gut Over the past few days, my news and social media streams have been inundated by articles on “nanojuice”. The “juice” – developed by researchers at the University of Buffalo and...
by Andrew Maynard | Jul 9, 2014 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology, Risk
Sunscreen (non)sense A recent comment on the Risk Science Center Facebook page asked whether we could help make sense of this article, posted on the website realfarmacy.com a few days ago: Scientists Blow The Lid on Cancer & Sunscreen Myth, July 5 2014 The article...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 2, 2013 | Communication, Emerging Technology, Engagement, Environment, Geoengineering, Public Health, Risk, Sustainability, Synthetic Biology, Technology Innovation
Cross-posted from Risk Sense This week’s Risk Bites video takes a roller-coaster ride through some of the hottest topics in risk science. Admittedly this is a somewhat personal list, and rather constrained by being compressed into a two and a half minute video...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 16, 2011 | Public Health, Risk
This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog. Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from...
