Project News
- March 20, 2007 Life Cycle Assessment Essential to Nanotech Commercial Development
- March 7, 2007 Survey Finds Emotional Reactions to Nanotechnology
- January 4, 2007 Nanotech Safety Needs Specific Government Risk Research Strategy and Funding
- December 5, 2006 Nanotechnology’s Potential Threatened by Weak Public Education and Outreach Dr. Lane made his remarks today at a Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies event at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The program marked the release of a new article in the December 2006 issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, “What drives public acceptance of nanotechnology?” video
- November 27, 2006 Have Yourself A Merry “Nano” Christmas!
- November 16, 2006 Spectre of Possible Harm Threatens Nanotech Development, Experts Say
- November 16, 2006 Congressmen and Former EPA Administrator Release Statements in Support of Nature Paper Several high profile statements were released today in response to the publication of the “Safe Handling of Nanotechnology” published in the November 16 issue of Nature. See below for excerpts and links to the complete statements. video
- October 23, 2006 Nanotechnology: Next Big Thing, or Much Ado About Nothing?
- October 10, 2006 Nanotech Knocks 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. video
- October 6, 2006 Comments Submitted to UK Council on Science & Technology
- October 6, 2006 Project Comments Submitted to FDA in Advance of Public Hearing
- October 5, 2006 Nanotechnology: Sold in a Store Near You!
- October 5, 2006 Is FDA Nanotech-Ready? A new report released today, Regulating the Products of Nanotechnology: Does FDA Have the Tools It Needs? by Michael Taylor, a former Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), examines the agency’s capacity to properly regulate new products containing nanotechnology materials—including food, drugs, medical devices, dietary supplements and cosmetics. video audio
- September 21, 2006 Nanotechnology Development Suffers from Lack of Risk Research Plan, Inadequate Funding & Leadership The successful development of nanotechnology—with its potential to help provide new medical treatments, sustainable energy, and 21st century jobs—is being jeopardized by the lack of a clear federal strategy for examining possible environmental, health and safety risks and by inadequate funding for this work. video
- September 20, 2006 Congressional Hearing on Nanotechnology
