The golem stories of Jewish history can provide a framework for thinking about some of the ethical questions involved in nanotechnology and nanomedicine, as Chris Toumey explains.
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19 January 2012
In the Thesis article 'Molecular golems' (Nature Nanotech. 7, 1–2; 2012), the surname of the author of ref. 5 was spelled incorrectly in the main text; it should have read Scholem. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions.
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Toumey, C. Molecular golems. Nature Nanotech 7, 1–2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.239
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