Tag: nanotechnology
Blog Posts (19)
February 1, 2013
Nanotechnology: Who does the EPA Serve?
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently heard oral argument in the case of NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL,( NRDC), vs. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Case# 12-70268, regarding the EPA’s conditional approval of a nano-silver produc...October 14, 2009
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.…
September 30, 2009
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.…
September 1, 2009
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.…
June 25, 2009
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.…
June 17, 2009
Be Careful What You Wish For
In collaboration with Nanotech-Now.com and Lifeboat Foundation, Ti
hamer Toth-Fejel comments as this month’s guest columnist about the prospect of a much less ominous future for nanotechnology that most.…
April 27, 2009
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.…
March 23, 2009
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.…
March 9, 2009
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.…
February 9, 2009
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.…
Published Articles (3)
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 9 Issue 10 - Oct 2009
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "The Coming Era of Nanomedicine" Fritz Allhoff
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 9 Issue 10 - Oct 2009
The Coming Era of Nanomedicine Fritz Allhoff
American Journal of Bioethics: Volume 8 Issue 8 - Aug 2008
Review of Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor, and John Weckert, eds., Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology Ronald Sandler
News (2)
April 22, 2012 11:57 am
FDA Proposes Guidelines For Nanomaterials In Food And Cosmetics (Medical News Today)
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed two new draft guidelines for the evaluation and use of nanomaterials in food and cosmetics. The agency said in a Consumer Update that this is the continuation of a “dialogue” that started in June 2011, when they issued a draft of the first guideline on the subject, one that helps industry decide whether an FDA-regulated product involves the use of nanotechnology, by considering for instance the size and properties of the materials.
March 5, 2012 11:21 am
Nanotechnology’s Threat to Privacy Over-Hyped (Digg)
The field of nanotechnology has been on the defensive for reasonable causes, such as the safety of workers that handle certain nanomaterials. But it also finds itself under attack from the purely fanciful, like charges of nanotechnology compromising our privacy. #bioethics #nanotechnology #nanoethics