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The Forum: Challenges of Nanoscience

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Forum main image: courtesy of Shana Kelley - gold/ palladium crystal

13/09/2014 GMT

Challenges of Nanoscience

BBC World Service - The Forum, Challenges of Nanoscience

Transforming biosciences with particles just a few billionths of a metre across

New developments in biological nanosciences with Shana Kelley, Yamuna Krishnan, Benjamin Bratton and Josh Fischman.

Bridget Kendall talks to leading nanoscientists gathered by the Royal Society of Chemistry at the University of California San Diego:  biochemist Shana Kelley who makes medical diagnostic tools using tiny quantities of metals, biologist Yamuna Krishnan who creates nanomachines from synthetic DNA, design theorist Benjamin Bratton who wants to link up nanoinks with cloud computing, and journalist Josh Fischman who helps us separate nanofact from nanofiction.

(Photo: A nano gold/palladium crystal courtesy of Kelley Laboratory)

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