Project Press Releases
- January 16, 2007pdfResearch Advances on Nanotech Workplace Health and Safety“Companies, workers and investors alike are being challenged by the uncertainties surrounding nanotechnology workplace safety. These uncertainties include lack of sound, scientific information on occupational risks, poorly determined perceptual risks, and hesitancy over nanotechnology oversight,” according to co-authors Andrew Maynard and David Y.H. Pui in an article in the latest issue of the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. This is a special journal issue devoted to nanoparticles and occupational health.
- January 4, 2007pdfNanotech Safety Needs Specific Govt. Risk Research Strategy and Funding“Prioritizing nanotechnology risk research isn’t rocket science,” said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist Andrew Maynard. Dr. Maynard’s remark is in his testimony today before the federal government’s first public meeting focused exclusively on research needs and priorities for the environmental, health and safety risks of engineered nanoscale materials.
- December 28, 2006pdfSafety Experts Ill-equipped to Handle Nanotechnology in WorkplaceA strategic plan and more resources for risk research are needed now in order to ensure safe nano-workplaces today and in the future. That is the conclusion of Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Chief Science Advisor Andrew Maynard in a new article, “Nanotechnology and Safety” just released by Cleanroom Technology magazine. The article is available in the magazine’s December 2006 / January 2007 issue and is freely available online: http://www.cleanroomtechnology.co.uk.
- December 5, 2006pdfFormer White House Science Advisor Warns that Nanotechnology's Potential Threatened by Weak Public Education and Outreach“Nanoscale science and engineering promise to be as important as the steam engine, the transistor, and the Internet, and have the potential to revolutionize all other technologies” according to Neal Lane, former science advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton. “But that outcome is not guaranteed.”
- November 27, 2006pdfHave Yourself A Merry "Nano" Christmas: Nanotechnology Holiday GiftsTell a friend you are buying them a nanotechnology gift for the holidays, and visions of Star Trek collectables or geeky electronic toys start to dance in their heads. But nanotechnology gifts can include everything from fleece jackets and gloves from the Lands’ End™ catalogue—with Nano-Tex® Resists Static treatment—to an Apollo Diamond® engagement ring.
- November 15, 2006pdfSafe and Profitable Nanotechnologies Will Not Become Reality Unless Uncertainties AddressedStatement by William K. Reilly, Founding Partner, Aqua International Partners; Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993)
- November 15, 2006pdfWyden Praises Nature Nanotechnology ArticleSenator Wyden says that “Safe Handling of Nanotechnology” article offers a much needed framework for considering nanotechnology’s environmental, health, and safety implications.
- November 15, 2006pdfSpectre of Possible Harm Threatens Nanotech Development, Experts SaySociety is in danger of squandering the powerful potential of nanotechnology due to a lack of clear information about its risks, conclude 14 top international scientists in a major paper published in the November 16th issue of the journal Nature. The paper identifies Five Grand Challenges for research on nanotechnology risk that must be met if the technology is to reach its full promise.
- October 23, 2006pdfNanotechnology: The Next Big Thing, or Much Ado About Nothing?In less than a decade, nanotechnology is predicted to result in $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods annually. Already, there are over 300 manufacturer-identified nanotechnology-based consumer products on the market—ranging from computer chips to automobile parts and from clothing to cosmetics and dietary supplements (see: www.nanotechproject.org/consumerproducts).
- October 10, 2006pdfNanotechnology: It's Knocking on FDA's Door“Thanks to the promise of nanotechnology, people will benefit from fantastic new prescription drugs and from better ways of getting existing pharmaceuticals into the body for more effective disease treatments. But new nano-enabled drugs and medical devices also place new burdens on an oversight agency that is already stretched extremely thin,” said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Director David Rejeski in a presentation today at the Food and Drug Administration’s first major public meeting on regulating products containing nanotechnology materials.
