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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 65–66 (1 February 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.14
The economy of promises
Abstract
Is it possible to reconcile the caution of most scientists about their results with the demands of the media for headlines and the growing emphasis placed by funding agencies on the economic impact of research? Richard Jones urges scientists to be careful in their claims. Can nanotechnology cure cancer by 2015? That's the impression that many people will have taken from the Cancer Nanotechnology Plan of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US, which begins with the ringing statement: “To help meet the Challenge Goal of eliminating suffering and death from cancer by 2015, the NCI is engaged in a concerted effort to harness the power of nanotechnology to radically change the way we diagnose, treat and prevent cancer.” No one doubts that nanotechnology potentially has a great deal to contribute to the struggle against cancer.
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