Examining nanotechnology as a platform technology, as a technology that readily merges and converges with other technologies, allows us to contemplate the applications and implications of using these tiny devices to enhance or extend human capabilities. The contemplation of the intended and unintended consequences of human enhancement begs for striking a balance between opposing forces; and the...

Nanotechnology is a field that we often hear of its name nowadays. Altough what we know about it is soo poor, we admire this field of technlogy, moreover some societies even argues that nanotechnology will cause second endustrial revolution. In addition, nanotechnology makes our basic scientific knowledge upside down and is soo powerfull that it is potent in nearly every scientific field. There...

Purpose. The main purpose of the article is analysis phenomenon and manifestations somatic transformations in context anthropo-technological evolution at beginning XXI century. Theoretical basis. author determines understanding concept "somatic transformations" frames anthropotechnogynesis possible only on base integrative approach combination post-non-classical scientific paradigm methodology,...

Nanoethics, or the study of nanotechnology’s ethical and social implications, is an emerging but controversial field. Outside of the industry and academia, most people are first introduced to nanotechnology through fictional works that posit scenarios – which scientists largely reject – of self-replicating “nanobots” running amok like a pandemic virus (Crichton, 2002). In the mainstream media, ...

This review focuses on the role of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), their physicochemical properties, potential applications, and association with consequent toxicological effects in complex biologic systems. These MNPs have generated an accelerated development research movement last two decades. They are solving a large portion problems several industries, including cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, d...

Brain science is big. With the help of politicians, neuroscientists and the media, the brain has captured the public imagination. In late 2006 and early 2007, readers of The New York Times learned the difference between a “tightwad’s brain” and a “spendthrift’s brain” or how our “neurological circuits stop [us] from buying a George Foreman grill but not a Discovery Channel colour-changing mood ...

At the beginning of the 21 century, most people are no longer surprised by technological revolutions. The twentieth century brought us information technology and biotechnology: key technologies for pioneering innovations such as the computer, the Internet and genetically modified plants. In the transition to the twenty-first century, two other important developments: nanotechnology (the researc...

The papers in this special edition are based on contributions to the symposium “Trustworthy nanotechnology” in Trondheim, Norway in June 2010. This symposium was initiated by the research project NANOTRUST, funded by the Research Council of Norway’s Programme for nanotechnology and new materials. The motivation for the project was a realization that the question of trust in nanotechnology has b...