Letter: Nanotube study and cross-border science - The Guardian 24th May 2008

Your article (Health threat of nanotubes may be similar to asbestos, study warns, May 21) is a good example of the payback from international collaboration in the areas of emerging technology. The study was conducted in Edinburgh, published in a British science journal, and included a co-author from the Woodrow Wilson Centre's project on emerging nanotechnologies in the US. There is, however, an urgent need for more effective international coordination on key science policy issues, collaborative research efforts across borders and multinational oversight of this new, emerging technology and its products. Over the past eight years the US has been neglectful of international cooperation across the wide range of scientific, environmental and emerging technological issues, like climate change, energy and nonproliferation.

Link to Article