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From Reuters Life! Online Report  |  2009-06-12 10:33:41

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in China appear to have uncovered how nanoparticles which are used in medicine for diagnosis and delivering drugs may cause lung damage. Nanotechnology, or the science of the extremely tiny, is an important industry. One nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. Apart from medicine, it is used in products like sporting goods, cosmetics, tires and electronics ...

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From BusinessWeek  |  2009-06-11 16:02:12

INNOVATION INTERRUPTED

"We live in an era of rapid innovation." I'm sure you've heard that phrase, or some variant, over and over again. The evidence appears to be all around us: Google, Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, flat-screen televisions, the Internet itself.
But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? What if outside of a few high-profile areas, the past ...

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