• NIOSH Sponsoring Workshop on Safe Nano Design

    Updated: 2012-02-29 20:42:55
    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 NIOSH Sponsoring Workshop on Safe Nano Design NIOSH Sponsoring Workshop on Safe Nano Design Posted on February 29, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH Prevention through Design Program and Nanotechnology Research Center will hold an August 14-16, 2012 workshop entitled Safe Nano Design : nbsp Molecule Manufacturing Market NIOSH states that participants will provide input into the safe

  • Seeing at the Nanoscale

    Updated: 2012-02-29 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 9 Jul 2012 - 11 Jul 2012, Bristol, United Kingdom. Organized by Bruker.

  • State of the Art in Biodegradable Metals - A Think-Tank Workshop

    Updated: 2012-02-28 00:00:00
    Workshop: 30 Mar 2012, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Organized by Leon Esterowitz, National Science Foundation (NSF) Frank Witte, MD, MHH, Hannover, Germany Jag Sankar, NCA&T SU, NC Steven Pollack, FDA William Herman, FDA .

  • Novel RNA structural motifs expand tool kit for RNA nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-27 03:10:19
    New computational methods to explore the rapidly expanding collection of high resolution three-dimensional RNA structures reveal new RNA structural motifs, identifying additional building blocks for complex RNA nanostructures.

  • WHO Background Document on Guidelines on Protecting Workers from Manufactured Nanomaterials Available for Comment

    Updated: 2012-02-24 22:53:47
    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 WHO Background Document on Guidelines on Protecting Workers from Manufactured Nanomaterials Available for Comment WHO Background Document on Guidelines on Protecting Workers from Manufactured Nanomaterials Available for Comment Posted on February 24, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The World Health Organization WHO released a draft background document proposing content and focus for Guidelines on Protecting Workers from Potential Risks of Manufactured

  • Presidential Memorandum Calls for Increased Federal Procurement of Biobased Products

    Updated: 2012-02-23 23:14:40
    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 Presidential Memorandum Calls for Increased Federal Procurement of Biobased Products Presidential Memorandum Calls for Increased Federal Procurement of Biobased Products Posted on February 23, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link President Obama signed a February 21, 2012, memorandum entitled Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural America through Biobased and Sustainable Product Procurement The BioPreferred Program , which was established by the Farm

  • Machine learning may improve molecular design for nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-23 02:07:36
    A set of machine learning programs can now predict properties of small organic molecules as accurately as can calculations based upon the Schrödinger equation, but in milliseconds rather than hours.

  • ECHA Announces Plans to Update Guidance for Registration of Nanoform Substances

    Updated: 2012-02-22 22:15:07
    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 ECHA Announces Plans to Update Guidance for Registration of Nanoform Substances ECHA Announces Plans to Update Guidance for Registration of Nanoform Substances Posted on February 22, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On February 22, 2012, the European Chemicals Agency ECHA issued a press release announcing that it is currently preparing an update of its Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment IR CSA based on the European

  • Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies Identifies Top Technology Trends

    Updated: 2012-02-21 23:47:50
    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 Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies Identifies Top Technology Trends Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies Identifies Top Technology Trends Posted on February 21, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link During the Summit on the Global Agenda 2011, the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies asked members to identify the technology trends that would have the greatest global impact The trends , which were

  • Nanotechnology, DNA sequencing, and personalized medicine

    Updated: 2012-02-21 04:14:52
    Artist’s conception of a nanopore drilled into a layer of graphene to speed up DNA sequencing. One of the greatest promises of near-term nanotechnoloogy is cheaper DNA sequencing to speed the development of personalized medicine. There are not only genetic differences between different patients, but also genetic differences between, for example, different cancers of the [...]

  • 2011-2012 Winter Fundraiser Completed

    Updated: 2012-02-21 03:51:13
    Thanks to our dedicated supporters, we met our goal for our 2011-2012 Winter Fundraiser. Thank you! The fundraiser ran for 56 days, from December 27, 2011 to February 20, 2012. We exceeded our $100K goal, raising a total of $143,048.84 from 101 individual donors. Every donation that the Singularity Institute receives is powerful support for [...]

  • Atomically-precise positioning of a single atom transistor-VIDEO

    Updated: 2012-02-20 00:26:57
    Researchers in Australia and the US have demonstrated a working transistor by placing of single atom of phosphorous with atomic precision between gates made of wires only a few phosphorous atoms wide. This demonstration points to possibly extending current computer technology to the atomic scale.

  • EPA Regulatory Agenda Includes Notices Concerning Nanoscale Materials

    Updated: 2012-02-18 00:21:41
    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 Regulatory Agenda Includes Notices Concerning Nanoscale Materials EPA Regulatory Agenda Includes Notices Concerning Nanoscale Materials Posted on February 17, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced in a February 13, 2012, Federal Register notice the availability of its Fall 2011 Regulatory Agenda . nbsp EPA's Regulatory Agenda includes several notices concerning nanoscale : materials Test Rule for Certain

  • EPA Administrator Jackson Will Tour UCLA Lab Receiving Funding for Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-16 22:03:06
    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 Administrator Jackson Will Tour UCLA Lab Receiving Funding for Nanotechnology EPA Administrator Jackson Will Tour UCLA Lab Receiving Funding for Nanotechnology Posted on February 16, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On February 17, 2012, U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will tour the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology CEIN at the University of California , Los Angeles . nbsp CEIN has been awarded a

  • More “A”-level work under REACH: ECHA adds eight chemicals to the Authorization List

    Updated: 2012-02-15 21:09:02
    Allison Tracy is a Chemicals Policy Fellow. The European Commission has formally added eight more chemicals to the list of chemicals subject to authorization under the European Union’s Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).  These eight chemicals, which were proposed for addition to the Authorization List (or Annex XIV) in December [...]

  • Graphene heterostructures may lead to graphene-based computer chips

    Updated: 2012-02-13 00:41:20
    A field-effect tunneling transistor comprising a vertical heterostructure of atomically thin layers of graphene and boron nitride or molybdenum disulfide may pave the way for computer chips based on graphene nanotechnology.

  • ISPM 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-13 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Jun 2012 - 18 Jun 2012, Toronto, ON, Canada. Organized by Z. Leonenko, P.Grutter, G.Walker, C.Goh, J.Dutcher.

  • Current nanotechnology too cool to ignore

    Updated: 2012-02-10 23:19:27
    ideo of a superhydrophobic spray-on coating shows chocolate syrup shooting off a white shoe leaving it spotless.

  • CIEL Claims REACH Insufficient to Regulate Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-02-10 22:00:15
    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 CIEL Claims REACH Insufficient to Regulate Nanomaterials CIEL Claims REACH Insufficient to Regulate Nanomaterials Posted on February 10, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The Center for International Environmental Law CIEL published a report on February 6, 2012, entitled Just Out of REACH : nbsp How REACH Is Failing to Regulate Nanomaterials and How It Can Be Fixed According to CIEL , there are four key gaps in the registration phase of the Registration

  • EPA Posts Summary of 2011 Nanomaterial Case Studies Workshop

    Updated: 2012-02-10 00:02:23
    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 Posts Summary of 2011 Nanomaterial Case Studies Workshop EPA Posts Summary of 2011 Nanomaterial Case Studies Workshop Posted on February 9, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On February 9, 2012, the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency EPA posted a summary report on its January 2011 workshop on nanoscale silver . nbsp The workshop was the second in a series conducted by the National Center for Environmental Assessment NCEA to further the development of a

  • Industrial Technologies 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-10 00:00:00
    Conference/exhibition: 19 Jun 2012 - 21 Jun 2012, Aarhus, Denmark. Organized by Aarhus University, Aalborg University, Spinverse Consulting.

  • Advancing Plastic Electronics with Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 22 Feb 2012, Sedgefield, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • Nano4Life 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 17 Apr 2012, Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, GSK Stevenage site, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • HiPerNano 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Apr 2012, London, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • NanoMission Japan 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Feb 2012 - 17 Feb 2012, Tokyo,, Japan. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • Nano-enhanced Textiles

    Updated: 2012-02-07 00:00:00
    Conference: 28 Feb 2012, London, United Kingdom. Organized by NanoKTN.

  • International Scanning Probe Microscopy Meeting

    Updated: 2012-02-05 00:00:00
    Conference: 15 Jun 2012 - 18 Jun 2012, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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