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  • Getting to grips with nanomaterial toxicity

    From 2020science.org:Introducing MINChar—a new community initiative to support effective material characterization in nanotoxicity studies. Here’s a tough one:  Imagine you have a new substance—call it substance X—and you run some tests to see how toxic it is.  But you’re not quite sure what substance X is. You know that it is a ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on December 16, 2008
  • Nanotoxicologists self-assemble

    If you evaluate the toxicity of an engineered nanomaterial, how far can you trust your results?  If someone else repeats your tests and gets a different answer, did they do it wrong? Did you?  Or was the material used different in some subtle but nevertheless important way?  These are questions that have dogged nanotoxicologists ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on September 9, 2008