by Georgia Miller | Jun 15, 2010 | Engagement, Guest Post, Nanotechnology, Recommended, Regulation
Last week, I posed Friends of the Earth a challenge – “What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens?” Georgia Miller of FoE Australia and Ian Illuminato of FoE in the...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 8, 2010 | Engagement, Nanotechnology
Following up from my previous post, here’s an open question to Friends of the Earth: What is your worst case estimate of the human health risk from titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreens? What I am interested in is a number – a...
by Andrew Maynard | Jun 8, 2010 | Nanotechnology
Friends of the Earth (FoE) do not like nanoparticle-based sunscreens. This has been evident for some years – back in 2006 the organization published the report Nanomaterials, Sunscreens and Cosmetics: Small Ingredients, Big Risks, and every year since then they...
by Andrew Maynard | Mar 2, 2010 | Emerging Technology, Nanotechnology
Cancer treatment has been a poster-child for nanotechnology for almost as long as I’ve been involved with the field. As far back as in 1999, a brochure on nanotechnology published by the US government described future “synthetic anti-body-like nanoscale drugs or...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 5, 2009 | Nanotechnology
A new paper published on-line today in Nature Nanotechnology hints that some nanoparticles could cause damage to cells on the other side of normally tight barriers – such as the blood brain barrier or the placenta – without actually crossing the barriers. ...
