http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/05/medicine-goes-small/ How human ingenuity is changing the way we live Fri, 17 May 2013 02:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/05/medicine-goes-small/comment-page-1/#comment-848 JodyS Tue, 08 May 2012 19:37:19 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=2112#comment-848 Nanotechnology worries me, as it appears to be easy to "install" in a biological host and thus could be easily mis-used in germ warfare "experiments." As the article points out using the example of med-companies coating everything with bacteria-inhibiting silver---keeping bacteria and thus infection down in a hospital setting = good. Superbugs impervious to antibiotics = bad. Before we turn these things loose we need to look at the cause and effect first. I would hate to see nanotechnology end up the way that GMO crops are going - where we have let our science escape into the ether creating new mixes, new problems, due to our short-term thinking to fix something that then creates a whole new and worse problem. Nanotechnology worries me, as it appears to be easy to “install” in a biological host and thus could be easily mis-used in germ warfare “experiments.” As the article points out using the example of med-companies coating everything with bacteria-inhibiting silver—keeping bacteria and thus infection down in a hospital setting = good. Superbugs impervious to antibiotics = bad. Before we turn these things loose we need to look at the cause and effect first. I would hate to see nanotechnology end up the way that GMO crops are going – where we have let our science escape into the ether creating new mixes, new problems, due to our short-term thinking to fix something that then creates a whole new and worse problem.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/2012/05/medicine-goes-small/comment-page-1/#comment-839 Thibault Thu, 03 May 2012 08:44:37 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/ideas/?p=2112#comment-839 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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