Ed. note: every Friday (more or less) Nanotechnology Law Report’s David Fischer will look back at the week’s news and analysis of nano related issues. If you have something you’d like to bring to our attention, email him.
- Occupational Hazards reports on the expected NIOSH nanotech guidelines.
- Nanotechnology Law Report‘s Patrick Lewis, via Slashdot, gets in the holiday mood by explaining that Santa uses nanotechnology.
- NanoTechWire reports that researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute in Basel have developed a rapid method to detect the activity of a gene involved in controlling tumor growth.
- Nanodot proudly notes that the first of Forbes’ top five nanotechnology breakthroughs in 2007 is the winner of this year’s Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.
- At blog~nano Rocky Rawstern predicts the nano headlines of 2007 (including "Extensive use of nanotubes in composite materials").
- Soft Machines reports on the Avignon nanotechnology ethics conference “Ethical and Societal Implications of the Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Convergence”.
