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)