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Learning from the past

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When it comes to safety, the jury's still out on which nanoparticle characteristics we should be measuring. But, as Andrew D. Maynard explains, there's a rich history dating back over a hundred years on how we measure them.

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  1. Andrew D. Maynard is at the Risk Science Center, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA,

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Maynard, A. Learning from the past. Nature Nanotech 10, 482–483 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.120

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