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Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

The very small particles of nanotechnology were a health concern because of their potential to penetrate quickly and deeply into the body. The "gold rush" for nanotechnology patents continues, with more than 4,000 US patents issued to date, Kimbrell reported. More than $32 billion in nano-products were sold in 2005, twice the amount as in 2004. There are now more than 200 self-identified nano-products on US shelves, including paints, sporting goods, sunscreens, cosmetics, stain-resistant clothing, cell phones and digital cameras.

Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

You see this with nanotechnology all the time. "Nanotech, nanotech." It's nanotech all the time. Why? Because that's what gets you grant money in the scientific community these days. If you look at the statistics today, and you think about how many researchers and scientists are working on "nanotechnology," you think, "Gee, this field is exploding." It's not true. It's just that everybody who used to work on less glamorous projects just renamed all their stuff to be nanotechnology.

You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts

Surprisingly, the report did not emanate from the National Cancer Institute, which issued a report that same week saying unproven nanotechnology and genetically-targeted drugs could "eliminate the suffering and death due to cancer by 2015." Nor was the report on the front pages of the New York Times that chose instead to extol Gleevec, a disappointing anti-cancer drug that costs $2,500 for a month of treatment. Instead, the media ignored this report which said that a 5-cent pill, heralded by independent researchers, appears to be the biggest cancer breakthrough in history.

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits Gregg Braden See book keywords and concepts

In our 21st-century world of microchips and nanotechnology, it's no wonder we're skeptical when we hear that moving the atoms of reality is so simple that even a child can do it. It just sounds too easy to be true ... that is, until we consider what the science has shown us and what our most cherished spiritual traditions have always said: We live in a reflected universe, and we are creating the reflections.

Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

If you look at the statistics today, and you think about how many researchers and scientists are working on "nanotechnology," you think, "Gee, this field is exploding." It's not true. It's just that everybody who used to work on less glamorous projects just renamed all their stuff to be nanotechnology. So, now they call it nanotech, and they're getting grant money, and the statistics show that there's all this nanotech research going on. It's the same research; it's just been renamed. Now, there is some new nanotech research going on, but I'm skeptical about this, as well.

They say they'll be able to build an army of nanotechnology robots, little molecular-scaled robots that will run around your body and cure cancer. That's right, these little robots are going to snip away at cancer tumors, and I've said this before, but we already have such a system. It's in our bodies right now. It's called the immune system, and it's the most advanced nanotechnology in the world. This stuff is amazing. It cures cancer every single day in every single human being who's alive right now. It takes care of the job for us.

The Seven Laws of Nutrition Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

You are a walking nanotech miracle of nature You often hear talk about nanotechnology in modern science. There are frequent discussions about building tiny robots that would circulate through the human body and eliminate cancer cells, repair arteries, and accomplish all sorts of other miraculous sounding things. I always laugh at this because the human body already has nanotechnology that does all of this and much more. We have an immune system that puts any man-made technology to shame. Our body already knows how to repair itself.

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts

Alcor brochures suggest that "mature nanotechnology" might be able to reanimate frozen bodies "perhaps by the mid- 21st century," but they also note that cryonics is a "last-in-first-out process wherein the first-in may have to wait a very long time." Make that a very, very long time, like ... never. Unfortunately for Williams and the other sixty-six superchilled cadavers at Alcor, human tissue doesn't react well to freezing. When water is frozen, it expands into sharp little crystals.

You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts

Source: Drug Resistance laboratory, Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, N Ireland, UK Journal Pathology 205: 275-92, 2005 Surprisingly, nanotechnology may not be needed. We already have nano-tech available in the form of small molecules found in nature, such as resveratrol from grapes, quercetin from onions, and allicin from garlic, that can penetrate into the nucleus of cells and favorably influence genes.

Eschenbach speaks of is nanotechnology. Let's examine what it is. According to statements by the NCI, "nanotech is a technology with major potential to drive new generations of cancer diagnostics and therapeutic products." Technology employs structures or devices that are so small they are only the size of atoms or molecules. Following are some of the new technology that Eschenbach and others say will revolutionize cancer care. Quantum Dots dramatically improves clinical diagnostic tests for early cancer detection.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

Berkeley, California became the first city to regulate nanotechnology in December 2006, and other cities may follow suit. Under the Berkeley law, companies and research labs that make or use nanoparticles must disclose that fact to the city government and provide information about known health or safety risks. What Should I Buy? "Just tell me which ingredients to avoid." It's the most common reaction people have upon hearing about the toxic cosmetics problem. Naturally, everyone wants the quick fix, the easy shopping list. But unfortunately, it doesn't exist.

The "gold rush" for nanotechnology patents continues, with more than 4,000 US patents issued to date, Kimbrell reported. More than $32 billion in nano-products were sold in 2005, twice the amount as in 2004. There are now more than 200 self-identified nano-products on US shelves, including paints, sporting goods, sunscreens, cosmetics, stain-resistant clothing, cell phones and digital cameras. The personal care industry is leading the way as the largest single category.

The agency believes the existing battery of toxicity tests is adequate for most nanotechnology products. Particle size is not the issue, according to the agency. This view is out of step with the entire scientific community. Size matters at the nano-scale. Nano is best understood to mean "fundamentally different." Kimbrell feels strongly that the FDA must act quickly if the agency hopes to avoid past regulatory failures such as asbestos, DDT and PCBs. More environmental health studies are urgently needed.

Only 4% of the $9 billion dedicated to nanotechnology research in 2006 went to environmental and health research. "What we're left with are early studies that raise warning flags and no follow-up," Kimbrell said. "We need a real regulatory framework that protects public health and the environment." Questions of Value During the day's closing question-and-answer period, consumer advocate Kimbrell got a chance at the mike and bravely pushed forth with the idea of strong government regulations: "We believe FDA should be in charge of regulations, not the industry.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

Leroy Hood, cofounder of Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, and in whose laboratory the DNA sequencer originated, forsees a day when "with just a single pin-prick, a nanotechnology device will quickly measure and analyze 1,000 proteins in a droplet of your blood."2 DNA screening is now becoming widely used. There are "more than two dozen online genetic testing services springing up to take advantage of advances in genomics.... Tests for nearly 1,300 ailments have been developed so far."3 Newer tests are being develop that use techniques even more sophisticated than gene chips.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

The group filed the first-ever legal challenge on the potential health impacts of nanotechnology in a 2006 petition to the FDA, demanding that the agency monitor and regulate nanoparticles in cosmetics. Hundreds of personal care products already contain nano-sized ingredients, and thousands more contain ingredients that are available in nano form but don't include information about particle size on the labels, according to a Skin Deep analysis. Since nano-sized ingredients are absorbed differendy into the body, they require separate safety studies.

The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention Dawson Church See book keywords and concepts

DNA testing is joining hands with nanotechnology to produce tests that can deter mine the expression not just of a gene, a sequence of DNA, but of individual molecules, the "building blocks of gene expression."4 As genetic testing becomes more sophisticated, consciousness-based epigenetic interventions could be developed to target these conditions. Used in conjunction with known epigenetic visualizations, gene and other biomarker tests could go hand in hand with integrative medicine in a comprehensive treatment plan.

You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore Bill Sardi See book keywords and concepts

The current director of the National Cancer Institute has announced, if we can all just wait a few years, nanotechnology will detect or cure all cancers when they are still minis-cule and beyond detection with today's methods. These particles are colloidal structures with a diameter smaller than 1,000 nanometers and therefore can penetrate through diminutive capillaries into the cell's internal machinery. [Journal Cellular Biochemistry 97:1184-90, 2006] A nanometer equals one billionth of a meter. A human hair is about the thickness of 80,000 nanometers.

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Type 1 diabetes, • Effect of BCG vaccination on the reversal of new-onset insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, • nanotechnology — targeting disease cells, • UCSF scientists identify protein on t-cell that triggers Type 1 diabetes, • Infusion of insulin producing islet cells produces insulin independence in Type 1 patients, • Xenografts may be less susceptible to autoimmune attack, • Iacocca Foundation funds breakthrough T-cell studies searching for a cure to diabetes, • NovoNordisk licenses T-cell therapy - islet neogenesis therapy.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Moving from the minutiae of nanotechnology to the grossly visible metal mammoth steam engine, a GE-designed hybrid locomotive uses less fuel and produces fewer toxic and greenhouse emissions than today's current crop of locomotives, and that's another market advantage and real sales leverage. Enthused, GE's Vice President of Advanced Technology at the Global Research Center Michael Idelchick said to Fortune magazine, "The hunt for clean, sustainable energy will be the defining story of the 21st century.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

There are many definitions for nanotechnology or nanotech, but the one we like the best is simply this: engineering functional technologies at the molecular scale. To the extent that we think about nanotech at all, we tend to associate it with science-fictional possibilities: self-organizing swarms of self-replicating nanobots, moving through the world reorganizing matter at will, perhaps getting loose and turning the planet into "gray goo," a term coined by nanotech pioneer Eric Drexler in Engines of Creation.

With serious adoption of nanotechnology, we will begin moving from a "heat, beat, and treat" industrial era— jokingly summarized in the motto "If brute force doesn't work, you're not using enough of it"—to an age where nano-engineers talk about "nudging molecules into place," and "enticing" carbon atoms to "bond cleanly." The mindsets are as similar as those of a pile driver and a watchmaker.

Advances in nanotechnology and other micromanufacturing don't just apply to one industry: they apply to everything that can be rendered in bits, including living molecules. Our ability to work at finer and finer scales applies to DNA as well as to digitized plastic prototypes. Some researchers, for instance, think that the ability of strands of DNA to "compute," to link up in specific combinations under specific circumstances, may one day give us the ability to build living computers, which would use biology instead of electricity to drive computation.

They are nanotechnology's ultimate multitaskers, acting as conductors, semiconductors, or insulators, depending upon how they're shaped. They're also amazingly strong: by weight, they have fifty times the tensile strength of steel, and in theory could be up to a thousand times stronger; at the same time, nanotubes can be very flexible ("deformable") without losing resiliency. When used in a composite material, they can increase its toughness, change its electrical behavior, and allow it to store energy. Nanotubes can be used to make sensors, light-emitting diodes, even computers.

Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder of the Center for Responsible nanotechnology have reinterpreted this principle to both protect the public and allow scientists enough flexibility to fully explore a technology that could have planet-saving implications. Their version of the Precautionary Principle calls for "choosing less risky alternatives when they are available" and for "taking responsibility for potential risks." Rather than asking—like traditional risk-assessment methods—"how much harm is acceptable?" the Precautionary Principle should ask, "how much harm is avoidable?

MIKETREDER [MT] Cofounder and executive director of the Center for Responsible nanotechnology, Mike Treder is a professional writer, speaker, and policy advocate, with a background in technology and communications-company management. Mike majored in biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, after which his career in the private sector included a stint with a large telecommunications firm and stints managing radio stations in major markets. He has published numerous articles and papers, and does frequent interviews with the media.

Emerging technology is not the answer to the world's social and economic problems Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's called the immune system, and it's the most advanced nanotechnology in the world. This stuff is amazing. It cures cancer every single day in every single human being who's alive right now. It takes care of the job for us. We don't need microscopic robots to take care of it, we just need to take care of the immune system we have right now. Social and political implications of emerging technology So getting back to the original item here, what if we were able to download our brains into computers?

The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Farming may actually become such a high-cost endeavor that it becomes cheaper to build these foods on a nanotechnology scale. At that point, the companies that own the technology and the intellectual property will control the masses. Rent the old movie, "Soylent Green" to get an interesting look at the potential social dynamics. Intellectual property failures are here right now In practical terms, this is nothing to be overly concerned with today. Food fabricators are in the far future. It may be a hundred years or more before such items actually exist.

Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me Paula Begoun See book keywords and concepts

Soleil Aqua Protective, Anti-Drying Treatment UV, Sea, Pool ($29 for 5 ounces) is a lightweight, spray-on conditioner that claims to use nanotechnology to penetrate the hair shaft and protect it from environmental assaults. That sounds great, but even if this product could penetrate the hair shaft, none of the ingredients in here are capable of protecting hair from sun, salt water, or chlorinated swimming pools. This can work well for all hair types looking for a lightweight conditioner, provided you don't rely on it to protect your hair in the sun.

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