Mauro

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Researcher Mauro Ferrari, with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, has been studying the medical applications of nanotechnology. He agrees that the risks are very small, and the potential benefits are huge in comparison. He predicts, for example, that nanotech-enhanced screening could significantly cut the number of cancer-related deaths. And, he says, government policy makers and scientists have an ethical responsibility to spread such benefits to as many people as possible.