{"id":791,"date":"2011-06-15T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neu.innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:27:58","slug":"nanotubes-pose-health-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/nanotubes-pose-health-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanotubes pose health risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Need for risk assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers are looking at assessing the level of risk involved, for instance examining how many of the long fibres are present in the air at workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published in the American Journal of Pathology.<\/p>\n<p>\"The industrial-scale manufacture of carbon nanotubes is increasing, with a global market in excess of \u00a31 billion. This research shows that there is a potential hazard in the manufacture of certain types of carbon nanotubes\", says Ken Donaldson, Professor of Respiratory Toxicology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similarities with asbestos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The research found that longer carbon nanotubes caused a reaction in the lung lining similar to that of asbestos.<\/p>\n<p>Longer asbestos fibres are more harmful than shorter fibres since they also get stuck in the lung cavity where they can cause diseases including mesothelioma.<br \/>\nFinding safest kind of nanotube<\/p>\n<p>The study demonstrates the need for industry to design safe nanofibres that are long enough to be useful but short enough to avoid causing disease.<\/p>\n<p>It follows previous research in mice looking at the effect of carbon nanotubes on the stomach cavity.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/news\/all-news\/nanotubes-140611\" target=\"_blank\">University of Edinburgh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abstract of the Article: The American Journal of Pathology Volume 178, Issue 6 , Pages 2587-2600, June 2011<\/p>\n<p>Source: Meridian Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny fibres used to strengthen items such as bike frames and hockey sticks could pose risks to workers who make them. Certain types of carbon nanotubes - cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair - could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University research shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21133,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/21133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovationsgesellschaft.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}