Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment

Minding and Managing the Potential Threats around Us
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8412-2660-9
Verlag: American Chemical Society

Buch, Englisch, Band 1079, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: ACS Symposium Series

Evolving bio and nanotechnologies encompass a vast and diverse assortment of products and materials that have the potential to bring about major changes in our lives. However, remarkable benefits can all too often be accompanied by potential detrimental consequences. Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment: Minding and Managing the Potential Threats around Us presents contemporary research efforts, public policy and regulatory aspects, and ethical
issues focused on recognizing, understanding, and responding to these consequences in terms of human and environmental impacts. This includes topics relevant to manufactured nanoparticle toxicity in relation to human, animal, and microorganism exposure, consequent environmental fate and impacts, and downstream
effects on other emerging nano/bio industries. Emerging tools and modeling approaches for enhanced understanding of bio and nanotechnology risks are presented in order to provide a comprehensive and balanced overview of nano/biotechnology risk assessment.

Zielgruppe

Academic and industrial researchers in the nanotechnology fields, university students, and general readers with an interest in nanotechnology and biotechnology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ripp, Steven

Henry, Theodore

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Risikobewertung, Risikotheorie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Biotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheitstechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Risikomanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Understanding and Coping with Social Risk in Emerging Technology Risk Assessment
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D.
2. Case Study of an Emergent Nanotechnology: Identifying Environmental Risks from Silver Nanotechnology through an Expert Elicitation Methodology
Emma Fauss, Michael Gorman, and Nathan Swami
3. Environmental Application and Risks of Nanotechnology: A Balanced View
Jie Zhuang and Randall W. Gentry
4. Environmental Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Carbon Nanoparticles
Liwen Zhang and Qingguo Huang
5. Ecotoxicity of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: A Critical Review of Evidence for Nano-Size Effects
Elijah J. Petersen and Theodore B. Henry
6. Nanotoxicology in the Microbial World
Steven Ripp
7. Methodologies for Toxicity Monitoring and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment
Silvana Andreescu, Mihaela Gheorghiu, R?fat Emrah Özel, and Kenneth N. Wallace
Editor's Biographies
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henry, Theodore
Theodore Henry currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries and at the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tennessee. He is also a Research Council of the United Kingdom Academic Fellow in the School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences at Plymouth University, Plymouth UK. His main interests are in ecotoxicology and fish physiology and pathology. His research program investigates effects across multiple levels of biological organizations.

Ripp, Steven
Steven Ripp currently serves as a Research Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Department of Microbiology and is a partner in the life sciences biotechnology firm 490 BioTech, Inc. His research interests include bio- and nanosensor development for human therapeutics and diagnostics, preclinical bioluminescent imaging, environmental toxicology and nanotoxicology, and assay development for food and waterborne pathogens.

Steven Ripp currently serves as a Research Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Department of Microbiology and is a partner in the life sciences biotechnology firm 490 BioTech, Inc. His research interests include bio- and nanosensor development for human therapeutics and diagnostics, preclinical bioluminescent imaging, environmental toxicology and nanotoxicology, and assay development for food and waterborne
pathogens.

Theodore Henry currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries and at the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tennessee. He is also a Research Council of the United Kingdom Academic Fellow in the School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences at Plymouth University, Plymouth UK. His main interests are in ecotoxicology and fish physiology and pathology. His research program investigates effects across multiple levels
of biological organization.