Lentis/Nanotechnology and Society

Nanotechnology Background Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gthbjjvotug Really helpful/interesting and if you watch it, you're 1/4 done with our sts hw for next week :) For Wed. 11/8/2011 -- Annie drafts, Morgan adds [General introduction to nanotechnology as a field.] [Our focus: it's uses and how they impact our health.] Toxicity and environmental factors Health Nanomedicine "Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology." (wiki) For Wed. 11/8/2011 -- Morgan drafts [Nanoparticples - injecting with cancer therapy medicine - attack specific tumor] [Main idea: what nanoparticles will do to our bodies if left there] [Main fear: so small they will get in between cell walls. So small that they could build up in areas we don't want.] Other Products For Wed. 11/8/2011 -- Andrew looks up nanoparticles in specific products (focus on products out there that we buy and use without thinking about it, but they have impacts) [Everyday things that have nanoparticles in them (sunscreen)] Relevant Social Groups Andrew start focus here http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v8n2/schummer.html http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v6/n10/full/nnano.2011.169.html Center for Nanomedicine (pro-nanomedicine)