What is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the experimental process of manipulating matter at a scale of 1/100th the width of human hair, in order to create new products and materials.

New consumer products with hidden nanotech ingredients hit the U.S. market in a nearly unregulated fashion each week, including baby toys, personal care products, clothes, and countless other products.

The nanoparticles in these products are so small, they leach through the skin and spread through the environment in unpredictable ways.

What is Synthetic Biology? Synthetic Biology is the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world and also the redesign of existing biological systems to perform specific tasks.

Advances in nanoscale technologies – manipulation of matter at the level of atoms and molecules—are contributing to advances in synthetic biology.

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