Biotechnology and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment

• Includes topics relevant to manufactured nanoparticle toxicity in relation to human, animal, and microorganism exposure, consequent environmental fate and impacts, and downstream effects on other emerging nano/bio industries

Readership: Academic and industrial researchers in the nanotechnology fields, university students, and general readers with an interest in nanotechnology and biotechnology

Edited by Steven Ripp, Research Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Biotechnology, and Theodore Henry, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries, University of Tennessee

Steven Ripp currently serves as a Research Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee Center for Environmental Biotechnology and Department of Microbiology and is a partner in the life sciences biotechnology firm 490 BioTech, Inc. His research interests include bio- and nanosensor development for human therapeutics and diagnostics, preclinical bioluminescent imaging, environmental toxicology and nanotoxicology, and assay development for food and waterborne pathogens. Theodore Henry currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry Wildlife and Fisheries and at the Center for Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Tennessee. He is also a Research Council of the United Kingdom Academic Fellow in the School of Biomedical and Biological Sciences at Plymouth University, Plymouth UK. His main interests are in ecotoxicology and fish physiology and pathology. His research program investigates effects across multiple levels of biological organizati

"Writing as an environmental engineer and chemist, I feel that this is an excellent text and I definitely enjoyed reading it ... I strongly recommend that the multitude of scientists and engineers researching the applications and implications of biotechnology and nanotechnology in environmental systems read this book." - Blanca Antizar-Ladislao, Chemistry World

Preface
1. Understanding and Coping with Social Risk in Emerging Technology Risk Assessment
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D.
2. Case Study of an Emergent Nanotechnology: Identifying Environmental Risks from Silver Nanotechnology through an Expert Elicitation Methodology
Emma Fauss, Michael Gorman, and Nathan Swami
3. Environmental Application and Risks of Nanotechnology: A Balanced View
Jie Zhuang and Randall W. Gentry
4. Environmental Fate, Transport, and Transformation of Carbon Nanoparticles
Liwen Zhang and Qingguo Huang
5. Ecotoxicity of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: A Critical Review of Evidence for Nano-Size Effects
Elijah J. Petersen and Theodore B. Henry
6. Nanotoxicology in the Microbial World
Steven Ripp
7. Methodologies for Toxicity Monitoring and Nanotechnology Risk Assessment
Silvana Andreescu, Mihaela Gheorghiu, R?fat Emrah Özel, and Kenneth N. Wallace
Editor's Biographies
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index