Nanotechnology is a fascinating and revolutionary in many ways, and it has the potential to change and improve our lives.

 

I think that we all think about it from the golf course to the emergency room, nanoscience is developing novel materials, devices, and systems that are opening up new avenues of science.  Engineering controlling matter at sizes one one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair creates really an interest in the public and everyone concerned with it.  I think that is such an amazing new area that is just plain fascinating to me

 

As nanotechnology evolves, safety becomes a topic of great interest.  I think there appears to be very little evidence, so far, that nanotechnology is creating any serious dangers to our nation or is unsafe.  On the contrary, I’m told medicine has made use of nanoparticles for at least 25 years without incident.  Therapeutic medicines and magnetic resonance imaging tests already employ nanotechnology and have not revealed any demonstrably negative impacts on human health. 

 

In the absence of that I hope that Congress and the federal government will not as administrators or policy makers overestimate our role and we will conduct ourselves in a way to support the research and avoid imposing additional regulatory regimes on this developing field of science unless we are convinced additional regulation is warranted.