Archive : Fall
2006
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 OCTOBER 10: The FDA’s newly assembled Nanotechnology Task Force holds its first public meeting to discuss the potential benefits and dangers of nanotechnology materials—measuring one eight-hundredth the width of a human hair or thinner—in drug-delivery systems, surgical implants and prosthetics, among other uses.
NOVEMBER 7: Missouri voters decide upon a proposed amendment to the state constitution to allow stem-cell research and treatment. Some Missouri politicians have tried to ban such research.
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REGRET—that’s
what many people with tattoos eventually feel about their body art. Yet
the only recourse is a series of laser treatments that leave scars. Doing
nothing is not appealing either: Inks include carcinogens such as industrial-grade
carbon black and compounds found in auto-body paint. For those whose body
art is still on the drawing board, Rox Anderson, director of the Wellman
Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, has invented
bio-resorbable ink encased in polymer beads that burst and disappear after
a single treatment.
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