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The Risk/Benefit Yardsticks Were Just Moved Off the Field: How Technological Convergence Renders Current Risk Assessment Models Obsolete, and What to Do About It.

James Mulhall

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The nanobacteria do one particular thing. They create a rock-hard and toxic calcium phosphate shell that is identical to the Mulhall calcification found in humans. Studies have recently found these nanobacteria within ovarian cancer, heart disease, vaccines, cows, and many other places where they are not supposed to be. This fact was revealed to the FDA in the early 2005.

Scientists are now working very hard to characterize this particle. There is a large debate over it. Some people say that it does not exist, even though many laboratories around the world have succeeded in culturing it. The problem is that its DNA has never been sequenced; though it self-replicates, it does not appear to have a full set of DNA.

This takes us to the other reason that we investigated this particular item. These nanobacteria could be at the very source of new life forms and we can certainly use nanotechnology to research them. We could use atomic force microscopes, develop better ways of characterizing calcification, and so on.

Because calcification has such a huge impact on humanity and is the defining characteristic of aging, it should be addressed as a major area of nanotechnological focus to benefit humankind. In this manner, we can focus on a hopeful and positive outcome that will also help in garnering public support for the future of the nanotechnology field.

Douglas Mulhall is a leading nanotechnology journalist, an award winning documentary filmmaker, and broadcast executive. Douglas has also led at least one other life as a pioneer in scientific research. His landmark book, Our Molecular Future, describes powerful new tools to save the globalized economy from "nature's time bombs." That cutting edge approach is reaffirmed with a new co-authored book, The Calcium Bomb, about a nanobacteria link to heart disease and cancer that is shaking the medical world.

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