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Is Nanotechnology the Key to Happiness?
Nanotechnology has been called a great many things--the great leveler, the panacea to all that ails the world, the technology that will allow us to solve all of our problems from world hunger to pollution. But this month, at nanotechnow.com, Tihamer Toth-Fejel makes the rather provocative claim that the "exponential... (read the rest)
October Comes Early for AJOB!
Already live and available on bioethics.net is the October issue of The American Journal of Bioethics. Featured this month on the cover is the topic of nanomedicine including an editorial by Dr. Summer Johnson on whether the era of nanomedicine is upon us, still galloping toward us, or likely simply... (read the rest)
On Nanofoods, Someone is Finally Listening
Move over "Frankenfoods", here come "nanofoods, says thebigmoney.com. Quoting blog.bioethics.net, they note that nanofoods' potential and their pitfalls--and what may be coming down the pipeline. One of the first articles in a long while to take notice of the social and ethical implications of these new developments, hopefully it will... (read the rest)
Follow-up on The Wild West of Nanotechnology
Today, The Scientist has revealed more about the scandal involving nanoscientist Chiming Wei which was first written about here on bioethics.net. This scandal has brought into question what counts as "expertise" in nanomedicine, The Scientist claims, and one source was quoted as saying that it may have even damaged the... (read the rest)
Be Careful What You Wish For
In collaboration with Nanotech-Now.com and Lifeboat Foundation, Tihamer Toth-Fejel comments as this month's guest columnist about the prospect of a much less ominous future for nanotechnology that most. Yet, as the title suggests, it still presents some issues for society that heretofore we may not have tackled or even thought... (read the rest)
The Wild West of Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology has been described as many things: the next industrial revolution, the great leveler, an emerging technology, even technology of the Singularity. Yet, I am going to liken the nanotechnology revolution to the American Wild West. Let me explain why a 19th century metaphor is apt and why its actually... (read the rest)
Detecting Disease by Tattoo
If you ever swore to your self (or to another) that you'd never get a tattoo, you may just want to reconsider. You may within just a couple of years have a very good reason to get one made out of "nanoink". As recently reported on Discovery News, "nanoink" allows... (read the rest)
Nanofood: Without Transparency and Accountability, A Guaranteed Public Health Crisis
Also published on NanotechNow.com, this month's Nanoethics column focuses on the ethical issues of nanofood. You can read the article by clicking the link above, or you can read it in full-text below. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: "You are what you eat." Well,... (read the rest)
Nanotech Development: You Can't Please All of the People, All of the Time
This month's column from the Lifeboat Foundation, Nanotech Now, and AJOB Collaboration posted on Friday last week discusses the "rational" development of new technologies and the balance between a technology with great promise and unknown risk. Tom Powers, Director of the Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program at the University... (read the rest)
Who Cares about Nanotechnology Anyway?
Today on Nanotech-Now, I discuss what it would take to make the abstract discussions about "nanoethics" as a discipline, sub-discipline, or whatever it is into a meaningful discussion about a future where nanotechnologies impact our world and do so in a way that we have anticipated ethical issues that actually... (read the rest)
Could Spider Silk Save Your Life?
Posted today at Nanotech-Now.com, Summer Johnson has written a column on the ethical issues with the new polymer nanocomposites that material scientists have created and their appropriate and inappropriate uses inside (and outside) the human body for the Lifeboat Foundation's column called "Scenarios and Solutions for a Nano-World". To read... (read the rest)
Electronic "Sex Chips"
Scientists in the UK are working on methods to stimulate the brain, specifically in the orbitofrontal cortex, the part of the brain that feels pleasure from eating and sex. According to The Telegraph, implantation of a chip into that area of the brain is expected to result in increased sexual... (read the rest)
When It Comes to Nano, Feds are Passing the Buckyball
According to an article from Scientific American, the National Research Council has weighed in on the regulatory efforts of the federal agencies responsible for monitoring the safety and use of nanoparticles and objects using nanotechnologies. For the more than 800 consumer products using nanotechnology, the NRC has said that no... (read the rest)
Not Waiting for the Feds on Nano...
The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies announced yesterday that another city, following the lead of Berkeley, California, has taken action at the local level to promote the safe use of nanotechnologies in the absence of federal regulations regarding the research and development of nanoparticles and their related technologies.... (read the rest)
Glenn McGee in The Scientist: Devil and the Deep Blue Sea?
In his column for November, Glenn argues that scientists and industry shouldn't be the only ones making decisions about nanotechnology: Just because I am an ethicist does not mean I am opposed to making money, particularly when it comes with solid scientific discoveries that benefit human kind. The field of... (read the rest)
Forum on nanotechnology in consumer products
We got word from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (a joint project of the Wilson Center and Pew) that it's teaming up with Consumer's Union for an online forum this Tuesday and Wednesday about the potential risks and benefits of nanotechnology in consumer products. The forum is free and open... (read the rest)
Regulating nanotechnology
The FDA's Nanotechnology Task Force recently released a report laying out its take on regulation of products containing nanoscale materials. Here's a clip: A general finding of the report is that nanoscale materials present regulatory challenges similar to those posed by products using other emerging technologies. However, these challenges may... (read the rest)
Nanotechnology & Medicine: Summer Johnson's Take
Science and Society asked our Summer Johnson, director of the Ethics in Novel Technologies, Research and Innovation Program (ENTRI) at Alden March Bioethics Institute, to talk about ethical issues in nanotechnology.... (read the rest)
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