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Synthetic biology and nanotechnology

The popular computer game “SimLife” allows users to create and manipulate virtual people. But what are the c ...

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Deconstructing the nano-cube: What’s in an exposure metric?

A bit of fun this week: how many nanoparticles can you squeeze into a not-so-nano particle? A nonsensical question? Poss ...

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Safe nanotechnology in the workplace: A practical guide

This week, BSI (the national standards body of the U.K.) published what is perhaps the most practical guide to working s ...

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Nanotechnology and the God of Small Things

With apologies to Arundhati Roi for “borrowing” the title of her moving book, what—if anything—h ...

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Nanotechnology: The cause, the cure, and the spin-off product

What do Alzheimers and body armour have in common? The answer could lie in the structures formed when proteins self-asse ...

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$7 billion on nanotech R&D, and what do we have to show for it?

In 2004, the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) had a strategy – and it was OK. But what has happened sin ...

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