A little sense permeates the environs of the The Guardian, who take a break from worrying about the dangers of nanotechnology to discuss the hopes raised for early stage detection of diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s.
Many on the liberal end of the political spectrum are wrestling with these dilemmas how can nanotechnology be dangerous but beneficial at the same time? How many lab animals have to die before we understand the toxicological issues surrounding nanotechnology?
The answer, as regular readers will know, lies in the ability to distinguish nanoscience from nanotechnologies , and then to distinguish the different applications of nanotechnologies.