Project Press Releases
- 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.
- October 5, 2006pdfNanotechnology: Sold in a Store Near You!Looking for the future? Skip the Kennedy Space Center, Bell Labs, and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Search instead for nanotechnology consumer products sold on the Internet and everywhere from Sharper Image, Brooks Brothers and L.L. Bean stores, to Bloomingdale’s, Circuit City and local Mercedes-Benz dealerships.
- October 5, 2006pdfFDA is NOT Nanotech Ready: Former Official Says FDA Lacks Resources & Faces Legal GapsA 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. Taylor’s report comes days before FDA’s first major public meeting on nanotechnology oversight, scheduled for October 10, 2006.
- September 21, 2006pdfNanotechnology Development Suffers from Lack of Risk Research Plan, Inadequate Funding & LeadershipThe 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.
- September 19, 2006pdfPublic Awareness of Nanotechnology Grows, but Majority UnawareResearch findings released today from the first major national poll on nanotechnology in more than two years indicate that while more Americans are now aware of the emerging science, the majority of the public still has heard little to nothing about it. The poll also finds that the public looks to the federal government and independent parties to oversee nanotechnology research and development. These results, according to experts, necessitate increased education and stronger oversight as a means to increase public confidence in nanotechnology.
