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Aired: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10-11AM ET
By Tom Ashbrook
Two months ago, Berkeley, California became the first community in the country to regulate business that make or use nanoparticles. Nano is a minute unit of measure: a billionth of a meter, the tiniest element of the material world.
The nanotech industry is the molecular-level revolution that many are hoping will one day be as giant a boost to the US economy as steam and computers. Revolutionary from the atom up, nanotech products are already hitting the market, from laundry rooms, to sunscreen, to windshields. Everybody wants a piece of the action. But do you know what atoms are being re-engineered in your backyard?
Photo: Prostate cancer cells with red nanoparticles. (Photo: Omid Farokhzad and Robert Langer.)
| · | Barnaby Feder, reporter for The New York Times | | · | Andrew Maynard, Science Advisor, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | | · | Mark Ratner, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University | | · | Krystyn Van Vliet, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT | | · | Henrietta Davis, Cambridge, Mass. city counselor |
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