• EPA Extends Comment Period for Proposed SNURs

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:49:12
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA Extends Comment Period for Proposed SNURs EPA Extends Comment Period for Proposed SNURs Posted on January 30, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA has announced that , in response to public comments , it will provide the public more time to comment on the December 28, 2011, proposed significant new use rules SNUR for 17 chemical substances that were the subject of premanufacture notices PMN Of particular interest

  • Panel recommends research to manage health and environmental risks of nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-01-29 04:35:32
    A National Academy of Sciences panel has recommended a four-part research effort focused on preventing and managing any potential health and environmental risks of nanomaterials.

  • International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology Will Be Held in March 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-27 20:36:12
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home International International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology Will Be Held in March 2012 International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology Will Be Held in March 2012 Posted on January 27, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On March 27-28, 2012 the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAA will host the International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology The Working Party on

  • NRDC Files Suit to Block EPA's Conditional Registration of Nanosilver

    Updated: 2012-01-26 20:31:26
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal NRDC Files Suit to Block EPA's Conditional Registration of Nanosilver NRDC Files Suit to Block EPA's Conditional Registration of Nanosilver Posted on January 26, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On January 26, 2012, the Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC filed a lawsuit in the U.S . Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit against the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA concerning its conditional registration of a pesticide product containing

  • NRC Publishes A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-01-25 23:41:02
    , , Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal NRC Publishes A Research Strategy for Environmental , Health , and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials NRC Publishes A Research Strategy for Environmental , Health , and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials Posted on January 25, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On January 25, 2012, the National Research Council NRC posted the pre-publication version of its report entitled A Research Strategy for Environmental , Health , and Safety Aspects of

  • Crowd-sourced protein design a promising path to advanced nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-01-24 18:17:37
    Foldit game players have again out-performed scientists in protein design, this time improving the design of a protein designed from scratch to catalyze Diels-Alder cycloadditions.

  • Lynn L. Bergeson Will Participate in Webinar on the Greening of Consumer Products

    Updated: 2012-01-24 15:17:37
    . Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal Lynn L . Bergeson Will Participate in Webinar on the Greening of Consumer Products Lynn L . Bergeson Will Participate in Webinar on the Greening of Consumer Products Posted on January 24, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link Lynn L . Bergeson will participate in a February 7, 2012 Bloomberg BNA webinar entitled The Greening of Consumer Products : Legal , Regulatory , and Strategic Considerations Bloomberg BNA states that the webinar is intended to help : users

  • Foresight co-founder among panelists discussing role of technology in human existence

    Updated: 2012-01-23 17:35:49
    Human life after advanced nanotechnology has been developed will be fundamentally different from life up until that point.

  • Give Today!

    Updated: 2012-01-20 15:16:07
    This is the last week to contribute to the 2011 Singularity Institute Winter Fundraiser. Please contribute, so we can we can hire more full-time researchers to make progress formalizing and solving open problems in the mathematics, decision theory, and cognitive science of AI risk research, bringing mankind closer to a beneficial Singularity. Thank you for your [...]

  • No orphan left behind: Health and environmental NGOs support EPA’s proposed paired rules to address high production volume "orphan" chemicals

    Updated: 2012-01-18 21:34:49
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist.  Allison Tracy is a Chemicals Policy Fellow. Environmental Defense Fund today submitted comments along with 15 other health, environmental justice and state and national environmental organizations, in support of EPA’s proposed rule to address the final batch of 45 “orphan” chemicals that were never sponsored under the agency’s [...]

  • Magnetic storage systems shrink from a million atoms per bit to twelve

    Updated: 2012-01-13 20:01:39
    An array of 96 iron atoms on a copper nitride surface, assembled using an STM and used to write a byte, demonstrates how small magnetic storage could shrink and may lead to novel nanomaterials for quantum computers.

  • Paper: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Updated: 2012-01-13 06:48:17
    There is a new paper by Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. It will appear in the Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence: The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues.  These questions relate both to ensuring that such machines do not harm humans and other morally relevant beings, [...]

  • Advanced nanofactories in twenty years?

    Updated: 2012-01-13 03:12:53
    An article in The Guardian quotes Christine Peterson and Robert Freitas on the vision of molecular manufacturing. Freitas is quoted as expecting that the development of nanofactories could be done in 20 years for "on the order of" one billion dollars.

  • Nanotech Commercialization Conference Will Be Held in North Carolina in April

    Updated: 2012-01-11 22:25:46
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home United States Nanotech Commercialization Conference Will Be Held in North Carolina in April Nanotech Commercialization Conference Will Be Held in North Carolina in April Posted on January 11, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The NanoBusiness Commercialization Association , North Carolina Department of Commerce , and Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology will co-host the Nanotech Commercialization Conference on April 4-5, 2012 in Research Triangle , North

  • Singularity Institute Covered in Bloomberg Businessweek

    Updated: 2012-01-11 00:18:57
    The Singularity Institute and existential risk mitigation were recently covered in a special feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, and the article was syndicated on various websites, including SFGate.com. Bloomberg Businessweek has a circulation of approximately one million. A scan of the feature is available here.

  • First Master's of Science in Nanomedicine degree program in US announced

    Updated: 2012-01-06 22:31:33
    The first Master's of Science in Nanomedicine degree program in US is announced. As an example of the rapidly developing potential of nanomedicine, a novel type of nanoparticle succeeded in two different mouse models in destroying a type of brain cancer that had previously been completely resistant to all treatment attempts.

  • EPA OIG Concludes EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterials More Effectively

    Updated: 2012-01-03 19:46:33
    Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Law Blog : Lawyer Attorney Bergeson Campbell Law Firm Nanotech and Chemical Legal Developments Published By Bergeson Campbell , . P.C Regulatory legal developments involving nanotechnologies nanomaterials About Contact Services Archives Home Federal EPA OIG Concludes EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterials More Effectively EPA OIG Concludes EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterials More Effectively Posted on January 3, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On December 30, 2011, the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA Office of Inspector General OIG released a report entitled EPA Needs to Manage Nanomaterial Risks More Effectively According to OIG , the purpose of its review was to determine how effectively EPA is

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