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UCB to Establish Nanotechnology Research Center

Posted by timothy on from the fits-in-a-coffee-mug dept.

foobsr writes "The Daily Californian reports that UCB (with a Interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Club already in place) is investing into a multimillion dollar research center . As it seems, researchers are well aware of the risks (e.g. nanoparticles seeping through skin) that their ambitious research may pose (original press release here)."

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  1. More biomedical nanotechnology needed by Linuxathome · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is definitely a niche for nanoparticles in vaccine and pharmaceutical use. The push should be towards therapeutic vaccine development, especially for chronic illnesses such as HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and cancer.

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  2. Gotta admit it would be cool... by nathan+s · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...to have those nanoparticles seeping through your skin delivering drugs; no more needles! *shudder*

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  3. not as special as they make it out to be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Berkeley is not the only place that has or will be having one of these. It seems like every big academic institution is building one or already has one. Cornell has had a really good facility(http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/) for a few years now which they just rebuilt and expanded recently. Cornell is also one of the Kavil Institutes for Nanoscience so they just got a big lump of money dumped in their laps to do nano&nanobio type research. UCSB and UCLA are also building the same type of facilities (http://www.cnsi.ucsb.edu/) and they're also nano + nanobio capable. Same amounts of money are being dumped into them too($50million+), if not more because they're funded by DOD and military. Rice is building one also but it focuses more on environmental impacts of nanotech.
    The only reason Berkely is making a big deal out of this is because they lost a lot of good faculty in the last few years because their facilities were too outdated. So they're hoping to attract attention of prospective faculty and coax them into coming there.