THE ETHICS OF MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY – A DEBATE
February 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTODAY'S medical world is abuzz with nanotechnology, with its offer of vision-enhancing eye implants, tiny needlepoint diagnostic cameras that don't hurt, and clever medicine membranes that ooze out the pharmaceuticals in correct regular doses.But there are risks, of course, as with any new science. And, what's more, scientists don't yet know how serious these risks are.After all, nanotechnology is about using tiny particles of materials chopped into such miniscule pieces - they are measured in nanometres rather than millimetres. There are 1 ...
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