• New Publication: “AI Risk Bibliography 2012″

    Updated: 2012-04-26 05:43:46
    The Singularity Institute has released a new article: Luke Muehlhauser, “AI Risk Bibliography 2012.”

  • Will piezoelectric graphene provide options for nanoscale manipulation?

    Updated: 2012-04-26 00:36:50
    Calculations using density functional theory have demonstrated that graphene can be made piezoelectric by adsorbing atoms or molecules on one surface, or by adsorbing different atoms or molecules on each surface.

  • Estimating chemical risk: Breadth (prevalence) may be just as important as depth (magnitude of effect)

    Updated: 2012-04-23 17:38:47
    Jennifer McPartland, Ph.D., is a Health Scientist. Earlier this month Dr. David Bellinger at Boston Children’s Hospital published a very interesting paper in Environmental Health Perspectives offering a new way to consider the importance of various risk factors for child neurodevelopment—such as pre-existing medical conditions, poor nutritional status or harmful chemical exposures—at the population level.  [...]

  • Amended Federal Regulation Will Require Contractors to Report Purchase of Biobased Products

    Updated: 2012-04-23 06:44:41
    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 Amended Federal Regulation Will Require Contractors to Report Purchase of Biobased Products Amended Federal Regulation Will Require Contractors to Report Purchase of Biobased Products Posted on April 23, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On April 18, 2012, the United States Department of Defense DoD General Services Administration GSA and National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA promulgated a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR

  • Mounting graphene on boron nitride improves its electronic properties

    Updated: 2012-04-22 01:44:34
    Creating a superlattice by placing graphene on boron nitride may allow control of electron motion in graphene and make graphene electronics practical.

  • FDA Releases Draft Guidance Documents on Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-04-20 23:06:00
    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 FDA Releases Draft Guidance Documents on Nanomaterials FDA Releases Draft Guidance Documents on Nanomaterials Posted on April 20, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On April 20, 2012, the U.S . Food and Drug Administration FDA announced the availability of two draft guidance documents addressing the use of nanotechnology , Guidance for Industry : Assessing the Effects of Significant Manufacturing Process Changes , including Emerging Technologies , on the Safety

  • ECHA Forwards Draft Guidance Concerning Nanomaterials to CARACAL

    Updated: 2012-04-18 22:49:34
    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 Forwards Draft Guidance Concerning Nanomaterials to CARACAL ECHA Forwards Draft Guidance Concerning Nanomaterials to CARACAL Posted on April 18, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The European Chemicals Agency ECHA sent three new draft appendices to Chapters R.8 , R.10, and R.14 of the guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment concerning recommendations for nanomaterials to the Competent Authorities for Registration ,

  • Nanoparticles reduce tumors in clinical trial

    Updated: 2012-04-18 02:55:51
    Clinical trials in patients with advanced or metastatic tumors using targeted nanoparticles to deliver a standard chemotherapeutic drug showed tumor shrinkage, even in the case of cancers for which that drug is not normally effective.

  • EU OSHA Announces French Report on Feasibility of Epidemiological Surveillance System for Workers Exposed to Engineered Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-04-18 00:47:17
    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 EU OSHA Announces French Report on Feasibility of Epidemiological Surveillance System for Workers Exposed to Engineered Nanomaterials EU OSHA Announces French Report on Feasibility of Epidemiological Surveillance System for Workers Exposed to Engineered Nanomaterials Posted on April 17, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work EU OSHA posted an item on April 16, 2012, concerning a French report on the

  • AFM in Single Cell Adhesion and Mechanics

    Updated: 2012-04-18 00:00:00
    School: 20 Jun 2012, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Organized by JPK Instruments AG.

  • OECD Publishes New Document in Series on Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials

    Updated: 2012-04-16 23:33:21
    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 OECD Publishes New Document in Series on Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials OECD Publishes New Document in Series on Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials Posted on April 16, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD recently published a new document in its series on the safety of manufactured nanomaterials , Important Issues on Risk Assessment of Manufactured Nanomaterials The document was prepared

  • Oxford Nanotechnology Summer School 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-16 00:00:00
    Course: 2 Jul 2012 - 6 Jul 2012, Oxford, United Kingdom. Organized by University of Oxford Begbroke Science Park and Department for Continuing Education.

  • Nano-scale Materials Characterisation

    Updated: 2012-04-16 00:00:00
    Course: 7 Jul 2012 - 8 Jul 2012, United Kingdom. Organized by University of Oxford Begbroke Science Park and Department for Continuing Education.

  • Online Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology, University of Oxford

    Updated: 2012-04-13 00:00:00
    Course: 7 Oct 2012 - 10 Jul 2013, Online/Oxford, United Kingdom. Organized by University of Oxford.

  • Fast nanoscale 3D-printing (link to video)

    Updated: 2012-04-12 20:41:26
    A new two-photon polymerization process enables fast printing of arbitrarily complex three dimensional objects with 100-nanometer resolution.

  • COMS 2012 - conference on commercializing micro- and nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-04-12 00:00:00
    Conference: 24 Jun 2012 - 27 Jun 2012, Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway. Organized by MicroTech Innovation AS.

  • USDA Amends Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement

    Updated: 2012-04-11 22:44:23
    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 USDA Amends Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement USDA Amends Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement Posted on April 11, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link In an April 4, 2012, final rule , the U.S . Department of Agriculture USDA amended the Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement to add 13 sections to designate product categories within which biobased products will be

  • EC Scientific Committee Requests Information on Nanosilver

    Updated: 2012-04-10 23:09:22
    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 EC Scientific Committee Requests Information on Nanosilver EC Scientific Committee Requests Information on Nanosilver Posted on April 10, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On April 10, 2012, the European Commission EC Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks SCENIHR invited interested parties to submit any relevant information that could assist it with its assessment of the safety , health , and environmental effects of

  • St. Petersburg Technical Fair 2013

    Updated: 2012-04-10 00:00:00
    Exhibition: 12 Mar 2013 - 14 Mar 2013, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. Organized by RESTEC® Exhibition Company.

  • Nano for younger kids

    Updated: 2012-04-07 05:06:26
    Nanotechnology outreach and education in Latin America, a buckyball toy, and a Swiss nanotechnology education kit featuring a Lego + laser model of an atomic force microscope

  • Restoring the credibility of risk assessment: A vital need under TSCA reform

    Updated: 2012-04-06 15:24:04
    Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. The primary means by which chemical risks are to be judged under current legislative proposals for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 (S. 847), is through risk assessment – a key demand of industry.  Yet traditional risk assessments have [...]

  • Singularity Institute Progress Report, March 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-06 09:38:28
    Past progress reports: February 2012, January 2012, December 2011. Fun fact of the day: The Singularity Institute’s research fellows and research associates have more peer-reviewed publications forthcoming in 2012 than they had published in all past years combined. Here’s what the Singularity Institute did in March 2012: Research articles: Luke and Anna released an updated draft of Intelligence [...]

  • B&C and Acta Will Hold an OSHA GHS Webinar

    Updated: 2012-04-05 19:52:17
    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 B and Acta Will Hold an OSHA GHS Webinar B and Acta Will Hold an OSHA GHS Webinar Posted on April 5, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link Bergeson Campbell , P.C . B C and The Acta Group , L.L.C . Acta will hold a complimentary webinar on April 18, 2012 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m . EDT on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's OSHA final rule revising the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard HCS issued on March 26, 2012. The final rule aligns the HCS with

  • Adding to the toolbox for making complex molecular machines

    Updated: 2012-04-04 20:04:40
    A set of rationally engineered transcriptional regulators for yeast will make it easier to build complex molecular machine systems in yeast, some of which may become useful additions to pathway technologies for atomically precise manufacturing and productive nanosystems.

  • MOEMS-MEMS 2013 - SPIE Photonics West

    Updated: 2012-04-04 00:00:00
    Conference: 2 Feb 2013 - 7 Feb 2013, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, United States. Organized by SPIE.

  • Background Papers Available from the International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-04-03 21:39:31
    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 Background Papers Available from the International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology Background Papers Available from the International Symposium on Assessing the Economic Impact of Nanotechnology Posted on April 3, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link On March 27-28, 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD in collaboration with the National Nanotechnology Initiative NNI and hosted by the American

  • CalNIN Sponsoring Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Businesses Engaged in Nanotechnology

    Updated: 2012-04-02 19:57:06
    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 State CalNIN Sponsoring Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Businesses Engaged in Nanotechnology CalNIN Sponsoring Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Businesses Engaged in Nanotechnology Posted on April 2, 2012 by Lynn L . Bergeson Email This Print Comments Trackbacks Share Link The B C Consortia Management , L.L.C . BCMM is pleased to announce that the UCLA Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology will be hosting a workshop that will be sponsored by The California

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