Project News
- April 25, 2007 Trips to the NanoFrontier Nanotechnology’s many anticipated benefits will arrive in waves of innovation, beginning with today’s stain-resistant clothing and other first-generation applications and extending decades into the future, when extraordinarily advanced products, from self-repairing tissues to quantum computers, may become practical. audio
- April 24, 2007 Nanotechnology Offers Hope for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries, Diabetes, Heart and Parkinson’s Disease Imagine a world where damaged organs in your body—kidneys, liver, heart—can be stimulated to heal themselves. Envision people tragically paralyzed whose injured spinal cords can be repaired. Think about individuals suffering from the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s relieved of their symptoms – completely and permanently. video
- April 17, 2007 New Methods & Tools Needed to Measure Exposure to Airborne Nanomaterials
- April 13, 2007 The Project Goes Carbon Neutral As part of its overall goal to minimize risks to humans and the environment the Project is working to reduce its impact on climate change. Although we are a small full-time staff of eight people, we recognize that our activities add to the rising global greenhouse gas emission levels. We are committed to reducing these levels and mitigating their impact.
- March 27, 2007 International Risk Research Strategy & Funding Needed for Nanotech Safety
- 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
