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Getting Nanomedicine to the World’s Poor

Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies



Posted: Feb 27, 2007

More good technoprogressive analysis of ways that nanotechnology can help the world’s poor from Peter Singer and his bioethics folks at the University of Toronto. “Nanotechnology might provide less-industrialized countries with powerful new tools for diagnosing and treating disease, and might increase the availability of clean water.”

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