by Andrew Maynard | Mar 18, 2010 | Nanotechnology, Policy
It seems the UK government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is having a “leaves on the track” moment this morning (a scathing cultural reference, for those of you Brits too young to remember!). The newly-minted UK nanotechnology strategy...
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 | Feb 18, 2010 | Nanotechnology, Policy
It looks like the US is heading for some serious action on addressing the safe development and use of nanotechnology-enabled materials, products and processes in 2011. Reading through the just-released National Nanotechnology Initiative’s (NNI) Supplement to...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 12, 2010 | Communication, Nanotechnology
Well I guess I set myself up good and proper – I should have realized that in asking people for their questions on nanotechnology safety last week, they would actually want answers! Having failed miserably to compile a catalog of websites that provide clear and...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 12, 2010 | Nanotechnology
Last Friday I posted 24 questions on nanotechnology safety provided by folks on Twitter and FaceBook, in a naive attempt to see if people could find matching answers on the web. Predictably perhaps, there weren’t too many responses. This wasn’t too...
