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Originally published November 6 2003

Yet another example of researchers jumping on the "nano" bandwagon.

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Wow, what an impressive way to include the word "nano" in a story that has nothing whatsoever to do with nanotechnology. This is all part of today's nano-craze, where everybody doing anything at all on a small scale attaches the word "nano" to their projects.

This article talks about nano-bumps. As in, little tiny bumps. Just like the kind on your skin, or the kind you find in a rock, a tree, or a concrete sidewalk. And, yes, metal can have nano-bumps, too.

This isn't nanotechnology, folks, it's just little tiny bumps. Get yourself a big enough microscope and you'll see them. Hey, maybe you, too, can be your own nanotechnology researcher and request billion dollar grants from the federal government! Get a good enough microscope and you'll discover that, wow, nanotechnology is all around us!

I'll give 'em one thing, however. There is something shrinking to microscopic size that's worth mentioning: the brains of all the researchers trying to jump on the nanotech bandwagon.

By the way, wasn't it Robin Williams who first said, "Nano nano" anyway?


Thomas Webster, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Jeremiah Ejiofor, have shown that materials containing the nanometer-scale bumps could be critical to keeping the body from rejecting artificial parts. Webster has demonstrated that human bone cells called osteoblasts generate about 60 percent more new cells when they are exposed to a titanium alloy that contains nanometer-scale features, compared to the same alloy containing micron-size surface bumps. Because bone and other tissues adhere to artificial body parts by growing new cells that attach to the implants, the experiments offer hope in developing longer lasting and more natural implants, he said.



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