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Foresight Institute Weekly News Digest: January 29, 2009Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot. Top News of the WeekMolecular motors progress for biosensors supports need for open source sensingIn light of the recent post on the need for open-source sensing arising from nanotech-based environmental monitoring, it is interesting to note this recent progress in building a nanotech-powered biosensor powered by molecular motors… In this issue:
Foresight Events – Lectures Nanotechnology oversight issues moving forward in CongressThe Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, via AAAS EurekAlert, brings us an update on federal efforts to address the potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) risks posed by engineered nanomaterials… Oral anticancer therapy through nanotechnology?An international team of investigators has demonstrated in mice a nanotech method of orally delivering an anticancer therapy that would normally have to be delivered by injection… Insurance industry looking for more data on nanotechnology risksLast September we wrote that one insurer would "no longer insure against bodily injury, property damage, or personal and advertising injury related to the actual, alleged, or threatened presence of or exposure to nanotubes or nanotechnology in any form." Now Christine Peterson passes along this item from Rhitu Chatterjee writing in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science & Technology, which notes that the exclusion has disappeared from the company's web site, and then goes on to report how carefully insurers are watching nanotechnology… Nanotechnology provides a possible route to a space elevatorLast month at a conference in Luxembourg, Cambridge University scientists announced a way of making long thin carbon nanotubes link together to form a material that might suffice to built a space elevator, perhaps a decade from now after the process has been successfully scaled up… —Nanodot posts by James Lewis Foresight Events – LecturesForesight LecturesMarch 10, 2009 April 2, 2009 Advancing Beneficial NanotechnologyDo you believe that nanotechnology will give society the ability to tackle the hard challenges facing humanity? What's your priority for nanotechnology: cancer treatments and longevity therapies, sustainable energy, clean water, a restored environment, space development, or "zero waste" manufacturing? Or perhaps there are potential nanotech scenarios you would like to prevent. If you would like to help influence the direction of this powerful technology, please consider becoming a member of Foresight Institute. With your support, Foresight will continue to educate the general public on beneficial nanotechnology and what it will mean to our society. To join: More EventsO'Reilly ETech Emerging Technologies Conference 2009
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