by Chris MacDonald
OPINION	Nanotech is Novel; the Ethical Issues Are Not We must become competent in dealing with moral concerns related to all new technologies The Scientist 2004, 18(3):8 Published   16 February 2004

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are among today's most promising fields of research. If their full potential is to be realized, we need to attend along the way to key ethical issues. But ethics should not be grounded in exaggerations, either positive or negative; hype just obscures important issues.

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