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Nanotechnology KTN Announces the Publication of UK Health, Safety and Environment Directory

It is well known and understood that the commercialisation of nanotechnologies requires a safe and responsible development approach to be in place. As signposted by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering repo...

12 Nov 2009

Paper Provides Summary of Potential Opportunities and Risks of Nanotechnology

In October, the German Federal Agency for the Environment (Umweltbundesamt, UBA) stated its position on the handling of nanomaterials as well as nanoproducts potentially fraught with risk and published a study entitled &...

4 Nov 2009

Book Provides Exhaustive Account of Carbon Nanotubes Toxicity and Biocompatibility Towards Human and Animal Organisms

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "carbon nanotubes handbook" report to their offering. . The field of C-nanoparti...

From Research and Markets 29 Oct 2009

PEN Senior Advisor Calls for Radical Change in How Government Oversees Nanotechnology

A new article by PEN senior advisor J. Clarence (Terry) Davies calls for radical change in how the federal government oversees nanotechnology and other technologies to best protect human health and the environment.

13 Oct 2009

Nanotechnologies Roundtable with Dr. Andrew Maynard

Dr. Maynard, Chief Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, discusses his experience and work, nanotechnology basics, regulatory issues, and potential and environm...

13 Oct 2009

Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

CIC biomaGUNE, the Centre for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials, is to lead the European project HINAMOX, an acronym that stands for Health Impact of Engineered Metal and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: Response, Bioimaging and Distribution at Cellular and Body Level.

5 Oct 2009

Major Adjustments to EPA's Recently Published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy'

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made major adjustments to its recently published 'Nanomaterials Research Strategy' that should greatly reduce the use of animals in assessing nanomaterials while impr...

5 Oct 2009

EU Must Do More to Develop and Deploy Key Enabling Technologies such as Nanotechnology

The EU must do more to develop and deploy key enabling technologies (KETs) such as nanotechnology, micro- and nano-electronics, advanced materials and photonics. This is the main message from a new Commission communicati...

1 Oct 2009

New Administration Framework for Chemical Management Reform in US

In a speech today at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced core principles that outline the Obama Administration's goals for legislative reform of this country's chemical management law, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA.

30 Sep 2009

Research Strategy to Better Understand How Nanomaterials Harm Human Health and the Environment

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today outlined a new research strategy to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment. Nanomaterials are materials that are between ...

29 Sep 2009