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Nanosilver in consumer products: No silver lining for fish — Environmental Health News on 2009-12-14
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Nanotechnology is projected to be a trillion dollar industry by 2015, with some
saying it will be the focus of the next industrial revolution. The number of
products – including sunscreens, paints, vitamins, food additives, electronics,
vehicles and appliances – that use nanomaterials has increased almost 380
percent since 2006, according to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, a
Washington, D.C.-based non-profit group that tracks nanotechnology -
In one new experiment, Furgeson, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences,
exposed zebrafish embryos to silver nanoparticles in a laboratory, and found
that some died and others were left with dramatic mutations.“Some of the fish became extremely distorted, almost making a number nine or
a comma instead of a linear fish,” he said.The nanosilver caused malformations in their eyes, swim bladders
and tails, and some developed fluid around the heart that causes congestive
heart failure, according to the study,
which was published in August in the nanotechnology journal Small - 3 more annotations...
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Life After Divorce: Living With Uncertainty - Divorce on 2009-12-08
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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can
greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding
that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
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- Trento's Take: The Perils of New York’s Gas For Cash on 2009-12-07
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Riter: Cancer patients struggle to make commitment in a world of uncertainty | theithacajournal.com | The Ithaca Journal on 2009-12-07
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At a recent cancer support group, the Rev. Tim Dean, chaplain at Cayuga
Medical Center, said that serious illness often makes us more authentic.Perhaps that's why making commitments is sometimes more
difficult when cancer is present. The commitments need to be honest and
authentic. There's not much pretense when you're bald from chemotherapy.But perhaps that is some of the good that can emerge
from the bad of cancer. When someone is with you through cancer, or even after
cancer, they are with you all the way
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Julian Cope presents Head Heritage | U-Know! | Features | Burying Heads in the Sandbag: Helping the Market Bring Climate Catastrophe on 2009-12-01
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Emissions trading is a way for the polluters to design their own rules so that
rich to get richer, and the worst offenders get the biggest rewards. Trying to
create a system acceptable to their desires is absurd enough, but pandering to
it denies the fact that their wealth has been accrued by passing on the costs to
others, largely on to the poorest in the world. They are climate criminals. They
should be glad that all we want to take is their ability to carry on and not
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Sandbag point out that reducing our personal electricity consumption, whilst
important, has an unintended and unavoidable counter-productive effect. Energy
generators are given a number of permits based on what they emit. So, just
cutting your consumption at home has the effect of giving the generator a
surplus of trading permits, which they then sell to over-polluters. Your
responsible action becomes their profit!
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- Add New Post ‹ Smokewriting — WordPress on 2009-11-26
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Nanoparticles found in big name cosmetics on 2009-11-26
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“A big concern is that in 7 of the 10 products we surveyed, Friends of the Earth
found ingredients that are known to act as ‘penetration enhancers’. These
ingredients alter skin structure, promoting the uptake of chemicals. This
increases the possibility that nanoparticles used in the cosmetics will be
absorbed into women’s skin.”
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Swansea University - Centre for NanoHealth on 2009-11-19
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The accolade is given in Nature Magazine (July 23) which calls the Centre for
NanoHealth the cornerstone of a plan to grow the University's Schools of
Medicine and Engineering. The article also mentions Swansea University's MSc in
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Nano-devices and Nano-biosensors will permit the detection and measurement of
biomarkers present in fluid or tissue samples at a level of sensitivity far
beyond current detection methods; in the parts per billion range
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- XGEN - Next Generation Engineering on 2009-11-19
- Swansea Bay: The Waterfront and Western Valleys on 2009-11-19
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