As Uses Grow, Tiny Materials' Safety Is Hard to Pin Down

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Investors and makers of public policy are realizing that ascertaining potential health and environmental hazards and effects of nanotechnology may well take many years. Research on nanotubes, at DuPont, found that nanotubes injected into rats tended to clump in the lungs, leading to difficulty breathing and ultimately to death by suffocation for fifteen percent of the rats. Research has found signs that cells that break down foreign particles in the lungs of rats have difficulty detecting and coping with nanoparticles, as compared with the larger particles studied by pollution researchers. Moreover, nanoparticles put in the nose can move to the brain, and can alter their shape as they leave liquid and enter air, complicating research on their potential environmental impact. Researchers say it will be at least ten years before they can give answers on potential health and environmental toxicological effects of nanotechnology.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Product information, Government regulation, Science & research, Legal/Government Regulation, Health aspects, Research, Economic aspects, Laws, regulations and rules, Testing, Environmental aspects, Chemical industry, Nanotechnology, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Nanotubes, Argonide Nanomaterials Corp.

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Revenue in Key Line Falls, And Oracle's Shares Slide

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Oracle Corp. surprised analysts by announcing a 6.7% drop in revenue from software licensing, as the company had forecast growth of up to 12%. Oracle blamed the results on disruptions from a reorganization of its sales force. The company's stock fell 3 percent, or 43 cents a share, to $12.55 on the news.

Sales, profits & dividends, Company sales and earnings, Oracle Corp., ORCL, Company earnings/profit

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Open Wallets for Open-Source Software

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Companies specializing in open source software, such as JBoss Group are raising venture capital at record rates.

Prepackaged software, Financial management, Venture Capital Companies, Miscellaneous Intermediation, Investors, not elsewhere classified, Case studies, Company investment, Investments, Company financing, Public software, Open source software, JBoss Group L.L.C.

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