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April 21st, 2014 9:53 am ET - Tanya Headley, MS and Katie Shahan, JD

To commemorate Workers Memorial Day, NIOSH is hosting a week of blogs with a new post each day ending on Monday, April 28th. To start us off, we will highlight the past and look to the future with a retrospective on the history of occupational safety and health research and NIOSH in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Occupational safety and health research has deep roots in Morgantown. In 1967, the Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Diseases (ALFORD) was created within the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) to focus on a prominent problem of the Appalachian occupational environment–”black lung disease” in coal miners. ALFORD’s director was Dr. W. Keith Morgan. The lab was initially housed in the West Virginia University (WVU) Health Sciences Center, and its research focused on detecting black lung disease and assessing its physiological effects. RD on 4.6 acres of land donated by WVU to PHS. In the same year, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (Coal Act) was passed. The Coal Act mandated a range of measures to protect coal miners, including limits on coal mine dust exposures and a program providing medical screening with chest radiographs to coal miners at operators’ expense.

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December 9th, 2013 7:03 am ET - Jennifer L. Topmiller, MS; Kevin H. Dunn, Sc.D., CIH

Background

Engineered nanomaterials are materials that are intentionally produced and have at least one primary dimension less than 100 nanometers (nm). Nanomaterials have properties different from those of larger particles of the same material, making them unique and desirable for specific product applications. The consumer products market currently has more than 1, 000 nanomaterial-containing products including makeup, sunscreen, food storage products, appliances, clothing, electronics, computers, sporting goods, and coatings [WWICS 2011].

It is difficult to estimate how many workers are involved in this field. By one estimate, there are 400, 000 workers worldwide in the field of nanotechnology, with an estimated 150, 000 of those in the United States [Roco et al. 2010]. The National Science Foundation has estimated that approximately 6 million workers will be employed in nanotechnology industries worldwide by 2020.

March 11th, 2013 2:00 pm ET - Vincent Castranova, PhD; Charles L Geraci, PhD; Paul Schulte, PhD

Earlier today, at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology, NIOSH researchers reported preliminary findings from a new laboratory study in which mice were exposed by inhalation to multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). The study was designed to investigate whether these tiny particles have potential to initiate or promote cancer. By “initiate, ” we mean the ability of a substance to cause mutations in DNA that can lead to tumors. By “promote, ” we mean the ability of a substance to cause cells that have already sustained such DNA mutations to then become tumors.

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Is what we see based on what we believe?

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Because I believe
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
That means I see that, because the cell's nanotechnology and complexity on multiple levels is unmatched by all the engineers on the earth combined, it is a paradox if it comes from a natural cause
But Science does not they say there two ways to get a efficient design?
1.Designers apply their energy and intelligence to trial and error and create a efficient design like the motor of the space shuttle
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It is a trust in knowlede and it's source

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One who loves God will see what they believe and the ones who trust science will believe what they see
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
That means I see that, because the cell's nanotechnology and complexity on multiple levels is unmatched by all the engineers on the earth combined, it is a paradox if it comes from a natural cause
But Science does not see it that way they say there two ways to get a efficient design?

Nanotechnology is not ready . how about

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People move some of their interest to something that could be ready sooner. Nanotechnology has been given alot of press, and that may have caused us to over look the possibilities of accupuncture. Or most people are idiots and a small percentage of us do most of the creative thinking Why havent we brought the technique of accupuncture into the 21st century. Hollow micro needles delivering anti biotics to localized areas of the body, or chemotherapy delivered into the closest cappilaries. Such a waste of accupuncturists today. What if this technique were used in areas around the lungs for tuberculosis would we have cleared up infections with less risk of creating drug esistant strains

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Carbon-based nanostructures are already being used as materials in solar cells with increasing frequency, yet their ability to enhance electrical performance has thus far been hampered by limited ability to assemble orderly networks using the materials.

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