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Toxicology of Nanomaterials: Permanent interactive learning

Paul Borm1 email and Vince Castranova2 email

Zuyd University, Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, PO Box 550, 6400 AN, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Pathology and Physiology Research Branch, NIOSH Health Effects Laboratory Division Morgantown, West-Virginia, USA

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Particle and Fibre Toxicology 2009, 6:28doi:10.1186/1743-8977-6-28

Published: 28 October 2009

Abstract

Particle and Fibre Toxicology wants to play a decisive role in a time where particle research is challenged and driven by the developments and applications of nanomaterials. This aim is not merely quantitative in publishing a given number of papers on nanomaterials, but also qualitatively since the field of nanotoxicology is rapidly emerging and benchmarks for good science are needed. Since then a number of things have happened that merit further analysis. The interactive learning issue is best shown by report and communications on the toxicology of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT). A special workshop on the CNT has now been organized twice in Nagano (Japan) and this editorial contains a summary of the most important outcomes. Finally, we take the opportunity discuss some recent reports from the nanotech literature, and more specifically a Chinese study that claims severe consequences of nanoparticle exposure.


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