Nanotechnology is the experimental process
of manipulating matter at a scale of 1/100th the width of human hair,
in order to create new products and materials.
New consumer products
with hidden nanotech ingredients hit the U.S. market in a nearly unregulated
fashion each week, including baby toys, personal care products, clothes,
and countless other products.
The nanoparticles in these products are
so small, they leach through the skin and spread through the environment
in unpredictable ways.
What is
Synthetic Biology?
Synthetic Biology is the design and construction
of new biological parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the
natural world and also the redesign of existing biological systems to
perform specific tasks.
Advances in nanoscale technologies - manipulation
of matter at the level of atoms and molecules - are contributing
to advances in synthetic biology.