Berkeley to Regulate Nanotechnology

December 12, 2006

(AP) -- The use of subatomic materials as microscopic building blocks for thousands of consumer products has turned into a big business so quickly that few are monitoring the so-called nanotechnology's effects on health and the environment.

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