Word: dioxin
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...April 12 story on a government study on the chemical dioxin that is potentially damaging to chemical and agricultural interests, the Post referred to the HCRA as "industry-backed...
Graham sits on a government advisory panel that reviewed the study. The panel issued a statement that called into doubt some of the most explosive findings, including the possible link between exposure to dioxin and cancer...
...biotechnology is limited by the tasks cells already know how to carry out. Nanotech visionaries have much more ambitious notions. Imagine a nanomachine that could take raw carbon and arrange it, atom by atom, into a perfect diamond. Imagine a machine that dismembers dioxin molecules, one by one, into their component parts. Or a device that cruises the human bloodstream, seeks out cholesterol deposits on vessel walls and disassembles them. Or one that takes grass clippings and remanufactures them into bread. Literally every physical object in the world, from computers to cheese, is made of molecules, and in principle...