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Baker and his team created a company called NanoBio. An $11 million Pentagon grant allowed the team to develop a cream that can penetrate and kill infectious microbes, everything from the fungus that grows on toenails to flu viruses to anthrax spores. The military version, called NanoDefend, is a liquid designed to decontaminate clothing and surfaces that have come into contact with anthrax, Ebola or smallpox. A creamy gel or goop, called NanoGreen, can be used by the military to decontaminate skin--and may eventually have topical and vaginal applications for consumers, according to NanoBio CEO Ted Annis. The firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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