Nanotechnology

  • New Fake Test to Target Poor

    31 Oct – Its Halloween, so what better time for pharmaceutical companies to create a new HIV test that doesn’t detect HIV but generates fear and profits?  The Daily Mail (UK), Fox News and other agencies report that scientists at Imperial College in London have developed a new HIV test that is “10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods.”  The test uses “nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the naked eye by turning a sa (more…)

  • Amid Nanotech’s Dazzling Promise, Health Risks Grow

    (March 24) — For almost two years, molecular biologist Bénédicte Trouiller doused the drinking water of scores of lab mice with nano-titanium dioxide, the most common nanomaterial used in consumer products today.   She knew that earlier studies conducted in test tubes and petri dishes had shown the (more…)

    Quest Diagnostics Demands Correction

    November 6th, 2012

    6 Nov (OMSJ) - Last week, OMSJ responded to reports that scientists at Imperial College in London had developed a new HIV test that is “10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods.”  Shortly after we published our report, Quest Diagnostics demande (more…)

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